Engineering Manager, Consumer Alliance

As the Engineering Manager for the Deliveries squad, you will lead the engineering vision and execution for how customers control their box week to week. Your squad owns the systems that keep a subscription flexing with the customer's life: skip, pause and resume, reschedule, delivery cadence, delivery day, and address changes — the controls a customer uses before an order locks in at cutoff — along with the home and delivery feed that surfaces them.

What you'll do

• Lead, inspire and grow a cross-functional team of engineers (backend and frontend), ensuring smooth delivery and continuous improvement of the Deliveries systems and tech real estate.
• Own the architecture and reliability of the delivery-control experience with a strong focus on correctness, applying changes in time before cutoff, data integrity, and operational excellence.
• Drive design decisions for scalable, event-driven services (e.g., Kafka) that apply high volumes of delivery changes reliably, with the highest quality and resilience standards.
• Operate as an engineering leader within a cross-functional squad: partner closely with product, frontend, and data to deliver end-to-end customer outcomes and make joint decisions across disciplines.
• Champion observability, on-call health, and incident readiness so delivery changes stay accurate and available around the clock.
• Actively contribute to hiring and capacity planning, conduct regular code reviews, and mentor engineers.

What you'll need

• You have led a team in an agile environment (5+ engineers), ideally within a cross-functional squad setup.
• You bring 6+ years of hands-on backend development experience.
• Deep experience building scalable microservices and event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka), especially where correctness, idempotency, and data consistency are critical.
• Experience designing and operating high-throughput backend systems that other teams and customer-facing surfaces depend on.
• Experience with DevOps practices and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), including observability and production ownership.
• A collaborative mindset and comfort working cross-functionally with product, frontend, and data partners.
• You are an empathetic, strong communicator and active listener.
• You are a self-organized individual who can operate autonomously, solve complex problems, and remove roadblocks.

Nice to have

• Experience with React Native.

What they offer

• Competitive salary package, including a HelloFresh-subsidized pension scheme.
• Flexible hybrid model with sabbatical leave options in addition to standard time off.
• Mental wellbeing support with access to platforms like Headspace and Spill.
• 24/7 office gym access and discounted Urban Sports Club membership.
• Learning Never Stops with internal training, HelloFresh Academy, and dedicated budget for German language courses.
• Parent-friendly policies, in-office kids corner, and on-site babysitter.