Senior Data Engineer

Full Time
Amsterdam, Netherlands
11 months ago

HelloFresh has been recognized as the #7 Best Place to Work in the list of Multinationals 2023 by Great Place to Work Netherlands! 🎉 Check out our amazing team and office here and learn more on our socials On LinkedIn and Instagram! Ready to join our team?

🍋 This is how you’ll change the way people eat foreverWe are looking for a Senior Data Engineer for our ambitious, fast growing team in Amsterdam. Working in the Data Engineering team you take a leading role in building our team’s long term success. 

As a Senior Data Engineer you will be the primary technical point of contact for a significant part of our tooling landscape and Engineering team. Together with our Data Product Manager and Engineering Team Lead, you will be leading a small team that is responsible for developing your tools to our landscape vision, as well as adherence to our target architecture and organizational standards. 

The bulk of these tools are critical to our day to day operations, within our supply chain and route planning landscape in particular. A highlight of the projects our tools contributed to over the past year:

  • Launching multiple new brands
  • Introduce our HelloFresh Market and expand to 300 items
  • Increase our menu size from 25 to 50 unique recipes per week
  • Launching our French market
  • Rebuilding of our Ordering process
  • Optimisation of our Distribution Centre planning
  • Significantly improving our technical and structural setup
  • Collaborate with our global tech teams, introducing querying engine, storage solutions and orchestration

“Join one of the most impactful teams of HelloFresh, owning a significant part of our tooling landscape and grow your career to a leadership position”

🥑 This is how you’ll make an impact

  • Take charge of a small team and work with them on challenging projects
  • Provide reliable and scalable tech solutions to the business by using the latest technologies
  • Support your Data Product Manager and Team Lead in building towards our long term tooling landscape
  • Improve our technical architecture with your knowledge and concepts

🍉 These are the ingredients you’ll bring to the team

  • You have 6-9 years of experience in a software or data engineering role
  • Excellent conceptual understanding of technical architecture
  • Great skills with Python, from Data Engineering to Software Engineering, including automated testing and building APIs
  • Experience working Azure/AWS, Airflow, Kafka and Kubernetes or equivalent
  • Several years of experience using agile methodologies, preferably Scrum
  • Ambition to grow into a team lead role
  • Excellent SQL skills and knowledge of Relational Database design
  • Good communication skills and able to coach less experienced team members
  • Fluent in English

🥕 This is our recipe 

  • Freedom to initiate, execute and implement your own ideas
  • The opportunity to engage and collaborate with our colleagues across the globe
  • Learning and development opportunities including a personal development budget
  • 24 holidays per year, plus 1 day per additional year of work
  • A hybrid work setup, with a budget to help set up your home office
  • Flexibility to work abroad
  • Reimbursement of travel expenses to the office 
  • A discount on your weekly HelloFresh and/or Green Chef box
  • Our FreshEnergy program including bootcamp, yoga, boxing, Headspace subscription, a collaboration with OpenUp for your mental wellbeing, webinars and other events
  • Multiple ways of getting to a work-related appointment, for example by using our company cars or a MyWheels car
  • Discount on your ClassPass subscription, and a discount for your gym membership via Bedrijfsfitness Nederland 
  • Discount on your additional health insurance through Zilveren Kruis 
  • Healthy lunches, fruit and snacks in the office 
  • Monthly pension scheme 

🌱 Grow your career at HelloFresh 

A career at HelloFresh is an opportunity to make an impact in a world-leading meal-kit company. Through our Learning Never Stops core value, we empower you to take your career development to your highest potential…but we don’t just want to say it, we want to show it too. 

Check out some amazing growth stories here: 

  • Nick Beeks’ journey from Junior Field Marketing Manager to Offline Growth Marketing Manager 
  • Valerie Blank’s journey from Junior Sampling Coordinator to Team Lead of Product Marketing

For this position we are explicitly looking for someone who has the ambition to grow to a Team Lead role in the near future. You will soon be taking charge of a small team and with this team you will grow.

🍍 Hungry for more?

  • Apply with your CV and a strong motivation to join us (In English please)
  • If we see a match, you’ll have a video call with one of our recruiters to share more about what you can bring to the team. 
  • Are both sides still positive? Then we proceed to the assessment stage to assess key skills required for the job. 
  • Next up is an in-person interview with the hiring team to get to know you better and dive into more detail of your skills and how you are going to make an impact. 
  • Lastly you’ll have a conversation with our Director of Process Excellence