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Senior Software Engineer (6-9 months contract) - Food Systems (f/m/x)
Australia
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Mid-Senior
The role
HelloTech’s Food Systems team powers the sourcing engine behind our recipes—ensuring the right ingredients reach the right place at the right time. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a key role in migrating users from our legacy forecasting solution while maintaining a high standard of support and stability for existing systems.
You’ll help shape the future of demand forecasting by building new systems, prototyping innovative solutions, and working closely with both local ANZ users and global stakeholders. This is a highly collaborative role in a fast-moving environment that values speed, learning, and continuous improvement.
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
Technical Skills
Duration: 6-9 months Fixed Term Contract (Project ends in March 2026)
Location: Chippendale Head Office - hybrid work environment
Salary: Competitive salary & employee benefits
#ENGINEERING
#SCM
HelloTech’s Food Systems team powers the sourcing engine behind our recipes—ensuring the right ingredients reach the right place at the right time. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a key role in migrating users from our legacy forecasting solution while maintaining a high standard of support and stability for existing systems.
You’ll help shape the future of demand forecasting by building new systems, prototyping innovative solutions, and working closely with both local ANZ users and global stakeholders. This is a highly collaborative role in a fast-moving environment that values speed, learning, and continuous improvement.
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
- Maintain and support the existing forecasting platform, handling bug fixes and minor enhancements.
- Lead and support the migration of users to new forecasting solutions.
- Build and present proof-of-concepts (POCs) and drive the development of new forecasting tools.
- Contribute across the stack—front-end and back-end—where your expertise is needed most.
- Work closely with users and teams to onboard and support the adoption of new systems.
Technical Skills
- Full-stack proficiency: Hands-on experience with Vue or React, TypeScript, and Python. Kotlin or Java experience is a plus.
- Database expertise: Familiarity with Redis, and PostgreSQL.
- Infrastructure & DevOps: Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions). Knowledge of Terraform is highly desirable.
- Microservices mindset: Strong understanding of distributed systems and service-oriented architecture.
- Background in supply chain, logistics, or food tech domains. (Bonus points)
- Customer-first mindset: Passionate about building reliable systems that meet user needs.
- Quality-driven: Committed to high standards of code quality, maintainability, and performance.
- Adaptable: Comfortable working across systems, learning quickly, and contributing where it counts.
- Clear communicator: Able to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.
- Agile thinker: Experienced in iterative, end-to-end product delivery in agile environments.
- Team-Oriented: You thrive in collaborative, cross-functional teams.
- Curious and Growth-Focused: You’re eager to explore new domains, from warehousing and logistics to customer care and culinary operations.
- Company discount - 70% off HelloFresh & 40% off Youfoodz
- The chance to have a significant impact in a leading global food technology company
- Flexible working arrangements
- Egoless environment, constant learning with room for personal growth
- Free access to Headspace
- HelloFresh Academies - internal learning & development
- A diverse and vibrant international environment, with offices in 18 countries
Duration: 6-9 months Fixed Term Contract (Project ends in March 2026)
Location: Chippendale Head Office - hybrid work environment
Salary: Competitive salary & employee benefits
#ENGINEERING
#SCM
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kubernetes
typescript
terraform
python
kotlin
docker
devops
react
redis
java
cicd
aws
vue
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- Posted
- Aug 12, 2025
- Type
- Contract
- Level
- Mid-Senior
- Location
- Sydney
- Company
- HelloFresh
Industries
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Categories
Engineering
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