Principal Engineer, Growth Mega Alliance (all genders)

GROWTH PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE

• Own the long-term technical architecture across GMA's five pillars: real-time personalization, experimentation at scale, AI/ML-driven automation, and cross-pillar data integrity.
• Lead the most complex architectural decisions (shared identity schemas, experiment assignment, AdTech-to-Conversions signal loops, payment authorization flows) and drive migrations with large impact.
• Ensure GMA platforms integrate cleanly with internal infrastructure and meet reliability, latency, and observability requirements at a global scale.

EXPERIMENTATION & PERSONALIZATION

• Define GMA's experimentation strategy and execution framework to optimize experimentation-based decision-making at scale.
• Own the data path from customer event to business decision: instrumentation standards, identity resolution, attribution windows, and signal quality.

TECHNICAL STRATEGY & CROSS-ALLIANCE COLLABORATION

• Define GMA's multi-year technical vision and communicate it with the precision engineers need and the clarity executives can act on. Represent GMA in company-wide programs.
• Partner with Intelligent Platforms, Consumer, and Operations Mega Alliances to drive shared architectural standards and prevent fragmentation.

MENTORSHIP & ENGINEERING CULTURE

• Coach and grow Staff and Senior Engineers across all five pillars. Foster engineering excellence through rigorous design review, strong observability practice, and honest post-incident learning.
• Champion AI-native development workflows, TDD, DDD, and DevSecOps. Set the written communication standard through your design docs and architectural decision records.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

GENAI & AGENTIC ENGINEERING

• Practical, hands-on experience with AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode) in production or near-production environments — not just experimentation.
• Experience integrating GenAI into customer-facing products or internal business processes at scale, with a clear point of view on the team and cultural changes required to realize the productivity gains.

GROWTH DOMAIN EXPERTISE

• Deep familiarity with at least two of: AdTech / paid media infrastructure, funnel optimization, payment orchestration, CRM and lifecycle communications, or pricing and incentive optimization.
• Fluent in growth domain constraints: PSP behavior, consent and privacy requirements across markets, deliverability limits, attribution windows, and incrementality measurement. Experience in a multi-market subscription or e-commerce business preferred.

TECHNICAL DEPTH

• ~10+ years in software engineering, with ~5+ years at principal level in a high-growth, cloud-native environment.
• Expert in distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven patterns (Kafka). Deep AWS experience. Strong proficiency in Go, Kotlin, Python, or TypeScript.
• Track record of designing and operating large-scale, multi-region systems. Comfortable doing hands-on architectural reviews and solving critical bottlenecks directly.
• Working knowledge of experimentation design and analysis; able to work directly with data (SQL, BI tooling) and trace the full signal chain from instrumentation to business metric.

WAYS OF WORKING

• Exceptional written communication — your documents make complexity smaller, not larger.
• Able to influence without authority; direct, low-ego, and comfortable disagreeing with senior stakeholders while keeping the relationship intact.
• Fluent English. German is a bonus.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

3 months — You have mapped GMA's critical architectural dependencies and GenAI opportunities, conducted design reviews across multiple pillars, and established a point of view on the highest-leverage technical bets for the year.

6 months — Your architectural direction is reflected in roadmaps. GMA's first AI-native workflows are in production. At least one cross-pillar initiative is running under your technical ownership with clear instrumentation.

12 months — GMA's platforms are measurably more scalable, observable, and AI-capable. Engineering standards are set and followed. You are the person leaders across HelloTech bring their hardest growth-engineering problems to.

WHY WORK WITH US

• Make an Impact: GMA's platforms touch every customer HelloFresh acquires and every euro it collects. Your decisions move top-line numbers at a company that has changed the way millions of people eat.
• Real Scope: You own technical direction, make consequential architectural calls, and ship things that matter — at a scale that makes the problems genuinely hard.
• AI at the Frontier: You will have the mandate, resources, and organizational support to lead AI-native engineering transformation — not advocate for it from the sidelines.
• Direct Access: You work daily with engineering, product, and business leadership, with the visibility and accountability that implies.
• Learn & Grow: Annual learning budget, HelloFresh Academy, and internal mobility across a large, technically ambitious engineering organization.