Senior Backend Developer, SCM Tech Fulfillment

S'more about the team 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 now automates the end-to-end planning process – a system with deep impact on how millions of meals move through our network. As we continue evolving this system, extending its capabilities, and preparing for expansion, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong backend experience, a talent for turning complex logic into clean, reliable systems, and enough full-stack fluency to support and enhance our internal application. 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. Lettuce share what this role will be responsible for 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 Improve reliability through automated testing, performance tuning, and thoughtful system design Guide as well as lear