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Engineering Manager, Operations Technology (All Genders)
Contract type
Freelance
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Senior · 6+ years
Job description
Lead and grow a team of mid-to-senior engineers while remaining hands-on, owning people development, project staffing and delivery health in a flat, collaborative engineering tribe.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Lead and grow a team of mid-to-senior engineers: set clear expectations, give regular and honest feedback, and own their development - including building the case when someone is ready for the next level.
- Own the people and stay technical. This role carries real hands-on expectations - you still deliver code yourself, not management at a distance.
- Keep raising the team's AI bar: role-model it in your own work, and push the workflows where AI genuinely changes how fast we deliver.
- Lead project staffing with the Director of Engineering and the product managers, putting engineers where the work and their growth both fit.
- Limit how many projects anyone carries, and keep handovers clean so nobody becomes a single point of failure.
- Own the delivery health of your team's work together with the product managers and the engineers leading each project: realistic plans, sound quality, and systems that stay reliable once shipped.
- Hire and onboard well - building the team's balance of skills as projects and domains shift.
- Champion the engineering practices we care about: behaviour-driven tests for every business use case, and small iterations.
- Help shape tribe culture as part of the leadership team, in a setup that is deliberately flat and collaborative.
What we're looking for
- At least 2 years leading mid-to-senior engineers in an agile environment, backed by 6+ years of total engineering experience - you've run development and growth conversations and seen people through to promotion.
- Comfort leading people through changing project boundaries - this is a team that reforms around projects, not one that sits still.
- A backend-leaning technical grounding - event-driven microservices, Kubernetes, Kafka, relational databases, CI/CD - with real BDD/TDD habits that make large refactorings safe.
- Daily, practical experience building with AI tooling: you've shipped real work with it, you know where it fails, and you learn as readily from others as they learn from you.
- A product-oriented mindset: you can reason about the business problem, prioritise for customer impact, and push back on low-value scope.
- Genuine interest in physical-world and supply-chain problems. You want to understand how the operation actually works.
Nice to have
- Logistics or carrier integration experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Elevate your lifestyle! Join one of Europe's fastest-growing tech powerhouses in a dynamic phase of expansion.
- Immerse yourself in a diverse global community of 90+ nationalities.
- Enjoy a competitive
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About HelloFresh
One of Europe's fastest-growing tech powerhouses
Key facts
- Diverse global community of 90+ nationalities
- Deliberately flat and collaborative engineering setup