Senior Backend Engineer, SCM Tech FulfillmentActive$120K

The Production Scheduling Technology team builds and maintains the platform that powers how HelloFresh plans, sequences, and optimizes production across our operations. Our team has developed the first iteration of the next-generation internal system with a planning engine that…

What you'll do

• Build, enhance, and co-own the Python-based algorithmic engine that drives: automated planning, including deterministic logic and constraint-based components

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using FastAPI, ensuring: scalable, reliable API interactions with our internal application

• Work end-to-end across architecture, implementation, deployment, and: operations within our modern technology ecosystem (EKS, RDS, S3, ElastiCache, Glue, etc.)

• Collaborate closely with engineers, analysts, and planners to translate: domain knowledge into robust, maintainable system logic

• Contribute to the evolution of the platform toward event-driven patterns using technologies like Kafka

• Support frontend needs for our internal React application, ensuring seamless: integration between FE and BE layers

What they're looking for

• Improve reliability through automated testing, performance tuning, and thoughtful system design
• Guide as well as learn through pairing, design discussions, and knowledge: sharing to help strengthen collective ownership across a strong, team-first environment
• Participate in shaping the future direction of an advanced system
• Work beyond your specialization when the problem demands it. Your: specialization is your anchor, not your boundary.