Staff Backend Product Engineer, Shopping AI & Search squad

The role

You will provide technical leadership for unified AI Assistant experiences, including conversational search and proactive in-app recommendations. You will shape architecture, drive technical decisions, and mentor engineers within the Shopping AI & Search squad.

What you will do

• Lead technical architecture for unified AI Assistant experiences.
• Own end-to-end technical decisions for integrating LLM-powered capabilities.
• Act as a technical bridge between squads and stakeholders.
• Define and drive engineering best practices for AI-powered systems.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design discussions, and mentoring.
• Use AI coding tools as a standard part of building.
• Shape the technical roadmap by spotting architectural bottlenecks.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architecture (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS/SNS).
• Strong hands-on proficiency in Go, or another modern backend language (Java/Kotlin, Python, or TypeScript/Node.js).
• Practical experience integrating LLMs or other AI services into production systems via APIs/SDKs.
• Daily hands-on use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar).
• Solid understanding of modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes) and observability practices.
• Track record of turning ambiguous product problems into a clear technical roadmap.
• Collaborative, low-ego approach to problem-solving.
• Strong technical judgment.
• Interest in mentoring other engineers.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Comfort working with senior stakeholders and distributed, international teams.

Nice to have

• Prior experience with search or recommendation systems

Benefits

• Global collaboration at scale with international teams.
• Technology with real-world impact supporting 6+ millions of customers.
• Technical/Product/Design leadership opportunities.
• End-to-end development/delivery.
• Access to workspace at Warsaw Centre Point.
• Modern facilities including showers, breakout zones, outdoor space, cycle parking, and refreshments (coffee, soft drinks, and fruit).

About the company

HelloFresh is a global technology organisation of 1000+ people building digital products for a subscription-based, direct-to-consumer food experience. HelloTech builds the shared platforms, data, and engineering standards that power their brands.