Contract Rust Backend Developer Jobs in Toronto, ON

S'more about the team

The New Ventures team is HelloFresh's engine for exploring and scaling the next wave of growth beyond our core business - owning the company's newest and most innovative brands such as The Pets Table, GoodChop & Factor Form. We build the products, platforms, and brands that expand HelloFresh's reach into new markets, business models, and customer segments - moving fast, validating boldly, and scaling what works. Our teams operate with a startup mindset inside a global company, combining the freedom to experiment with the infrastructure and data of one of the world's largest meal kit businesses. We use data-driven decision-making and increasingly leverage AI to discover new opportunities and bring them to life at speed. If you're energized by ambiguity, motivated by impact, and excited to shape what HelloFresh becomes next, this is the team for you.

As a Senior Software Developer, your role will be to help implement solutions & write beautiful code, working with various team members as we build out our consumer facing applications & the infrastructure that supports them. As a member of our Toronto team, you'll work with highly-skilled engineers, who in collaboration with our other global teams, have turned HelloFresh into the #1 meal delivery service in the world!

You can get a taste of what we've been working on by checking out our tech blog.

Lettuce share what this role will be responsible for

• Be able to design-develop-deploy software solutions for various HelloFresh markets & brands to deliver the best experience for our customers and internal users
• Take ownership of the architecture, design, development, deployment, and operations of the solutions that you develop, using DevOps practices, pair programming, and other cutting edge methodologies
• Be able to spend time learning and developing technical skills, and show off your technical chops via ambitious goal
• All other duties, as assigned

Sound a-peeling? Here's what we're looking for

• An active, solution-oriented member of autonomous, cross-functional agile teams collaborating with Product Owners, Frontend and Backend Engineers, Designers, and Business Intelligence teams
• An individual able to develop an in-depth understanding of HelloFresh's core products and architecture, and act as an ambassador for state of the art software solutions and industry best practices, while offering support and mentorship to colleagues
• 4+ years of working experience in an agile software development team
• 2+ years of experience working with React JS (preferred) or another similar Javascript framework (React Native, Angular, VueJS)
• Hands-on experience in continuous delivery deploying to customer-facing applications
• Experience writing unit/integration/function test cases, as well as with formalized testing methodologies (i.e. TDD, BDD)
• Experience with server-side technologies like Next.js, Nest.js, Nuxt.js, or Remix
• A solid understanding of backend architecture with the ability to assist in setting up new API endpoints and designing service contracts
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Honeycomb, Sentry, Datadog, New Relic
• Experience with experimentation (i.e AB, multivariate)
• Basic familiarity building and maintaining storefronts within the Shopify ecosystem
• Proven experience delivering end-to-end (e2e) features, taking ownership from initial implementation through to deployment and monitoring
• Proficiency in GraphQL for efficient data fetching and a working knowledge of SQL to assist with data exploration and analytics requirements.
• Bonus if you have exposure to mobile app development, either through React Native or native iOS/Android
• Would be a plus if you had working knowledge of one of the following backend languages: NodeJS, Python or GoLang
• Solid hands-on experience working with AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) beyond casual experimentation. You use AI agents as thought partners to onboard on unfamiliar codebases and navigate new areas of the code with confidence. You have a practical sense of how the context you provide to AI tools - specifications, constraints, examples - shapes output quality, and a developing awareness of how agentic outputs can fail, with growing habits around verifying, testing, and setting boundaries on AI-generated work.

Let's cut to the cheese, this is why you'll love it here

• Box Discount - Amazing discounts on 1 box per week! 75% discount on weekly HelloFresh and Chefs Plate meal kits AND 50% off weekly Factor meal box.
• Health & Wellness - Health & Dental benefits from day 1, a Health Spending Account, unlimited access to the Headspace app to meet your self-care needs, and 25% discount on GoodLife fitness memberships!
• Vacation & PTO - Time off is also an important part of self-care! We offer generous vacation and PTO to help you create a good work-life balance. 
• Family Benefits - A parental leave top-up program for expectant parents.
• Growth & Development - We support your career progression and invest in your continued learning through experiences and initiatives owned by our dedicated L&D team
• Work Hard & Have Fun - From team socials to engaging company days, you'll have plenty of opportunity to experience the fun!
• Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives - With impactful ERG's like FreshPride, Women Empowered and LIMES, we are committed to our diversity, equity & inclusion efforts.
• Food Puns - this one is kind of a big dill if you haven't already noticed. We even have some punny meeting room names!

Flexible Hybrid Approach

At HelloFresh, we know that flexible work arrangements are essential in enabling you to do your best work, while balancing your personal and life needs. Offering remote work flexibility, along with the opportunity to interact and collaborate in the office are all a part of creating a great employee experience. 

To meet these needs, we are pleased to provide Flexible Hybrid work. Flexible Hybrid is a people-first approach that is based on choice, trust, personalization, and empowers teams to choose when and how often they work from the office and work from home, in addition to team days and company days. This means a minimum of 2 days in office per week, with most teams in office between 2-3 days a week.

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HelloFresh Canada uses AI-integrated technology to help us process and evaluate applications more efficiently. This includes tools that screen and assess candidate qualifications based on the requirements for this role. While these tools assist our workflow, all final selection decisions are made by our hiring team.

This is a posting for an existing vacancy. We are actively seeking to fill this position.