Golang Job: Junior Back End Engineer

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Company

HelloFresh

Location

Berlin - Germany

Job type

Full-Time

Golang Job Details

At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Over the past 10 years, we've seen this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams. Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world's leading meal kit company, active in 17 countries across 3 continents. So, how did we do it? Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy and sustainable options. The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as: GreenChef, EveryPlate, Chef's Plate, Factor, and Youfoodz.

The role

In this role, you will join as a Junior Backend Engineer on one of our Consumer, Food or Supply Chain Management teams. You will have the opportunity to learn and use Agile methodologies, DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices to deliver incremental and continuous business value.

You will contribute to developing new product features backed by scalable technical solution designs which are catered for a global audience from day-one. You will get support throughout your journey via mentorship, workshops, pair programming.

Our Backend Engineers assume development and operational responsibility for the HelloFresh platform that serves millions globally to deliver the best experience for our customers and internal users.

Above all, we are looking for people who will make HelloFresh better. We believe there are many different ways of developing skills and we love diverse experiences! So even if you don't "tick all the boxes" but think you'd thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you.

What you'll do

Work in a cross-functional open-minded team typically comprising 5-7 people using a wide-range of technologies and frameworks. Your team will be a place where your thoughts and opinions matter and your contributions will have a tremendous impact on the team's success.

  • Take ownership of the architecture, design, development, deployment and operations of the microservices you will develop, using DevOps practices, pair programming and other cutting edge methodologies
  • Be active, solution-oriented member of autonomous, cross-functional agile teams collaborating with Product Owners, Front-end Engineers, Designers, and Business Intelligence teams
  • Having an in-depth understanding of HelloFresh's core product and architecture, and act as ambassador for software solutions offering support and mentorship to colleagues
  • Work with state-of-the-art technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, Spark, Kubernetes, Istio, and more

What you'll bring

  • A university degree in a computer science program.
  • Good spoken and written English skills
  • Passion for software engineering, as shown by previous internships, work experience, projects, or publications.
  • Speak Java, Python, or Golang.
  • Have the ambition to develop yourself and learn from your peers.
  • Creative problem-solving abilities.
  • Solid back-end experience within Microservice architecture using Golang
  • Experience working with Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes
  • As well as experience in CI/CD methods and practices
  • Practical experience of TDD, BDD, DDD and distributed architectural patterns
  • Background working with event-driven architectures using RabbitMQ and/or Kafka
  • Experienced in end-to-end development processes, including unit, integration & functional testing, distributed architecture, application tuning/profiling, and continuous integration
  • Experience working with relational and document databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
  • You thrive in the opportunity to collaborate and mentor team members, while also sharing practical knowledge and trends

Interacting with front-end developers, designers, product managers and our teams around the world is very much part of our day-to-day, so communication skills are vital. We are looking for strong problem-solvers who can apply their engineering skills to a wide range of platforms and environments, while also acting as an ambassador to coach team members and stakeholders.

What we offer

    • Comprehensive relocation assistance to move to Berlin plus visa application support
    • Healthy discount on weekly HelloFresh boxes
    • Annual learning and development budget to attend conferences or purchase educational resources plus access to the HelloFresh Academy
    • Subsidised childcare with a professional nannying agency
    • Free access to Headspace, biweekly in-house yoga classes (remote since March 2020)
    • A diverse and vibrant international environment of 70+ different nationalities
    • Additional perks include: Free crash course in German, compensation for advanced external German classes, discounts for our neighbouring gym & Urban Sports Club, summer & winter parties, discount on our HelloFresh GO vending machines
    • The chance to have a significant impact on one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Europe in an exciting growth phase

Are you up for the challenge?

Please submit your complete application below including your salary expectations and earliest starting date.

After submitting an application our team will review this and get back to you within 5 business days.

For insight into our interview process take a look at our recent post here.

About HelloFresh

We believe that sharing a meal brings people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures together. We are committed to celebrating all dimensions of diversity in the workplace equally and ensuring that everyone feels a sense of inclusion and belonging. We also aim to extend this commitment to the partners we work with and the communities we serve. We are constantly listening, learning, and evolving to deliver on these principles. We are proud of our collaborative culture. Our diverse employee population enables us to connect with our customers and turn their feedback into meaningful action - from developing new recipes to constantly improving our process of getting dinner to our customers' homes. Our culture attracts top talent with shared values and forms the foundation for a great place to work!

At HelloFresh, we embrace diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. As part of the Company's commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations, up to the point of undue hardship, to candidates at any stage, including to individuals with disabilities.

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