[TECH] Engineering Manager [CONSUMER]

The Data Privacy team is part of the Order & Subscription Experience Tribe within the Consumer Alliance at HelloFresh. The team manages systems and guardrails for responsible customer data handling globally, including consent management, data subject rights, data retention, PII discovery, classification, and privacy-by-design tooling.

• Proven experience in people management including hiring, performance management, and developing engineers.
• Experience leading distributed or multi-location engineering teams.
• Deep expertise in building scalable microservices and event-driven systems, e.g., Kafka, with emphasis on correctness and data consistency.
• Experience designing and operating high-throughput backend systems supporting other teams and customer-facing surfaces.
• Experience with DevOps practices and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), including observability and production ownership.
• Collaborative mindset with ability to work cross-functionally with product, frontend, and data teams.
• Strong communication skills, empathy, and active listening.
• Self-organized with ability to operate autonomously, solve complex problems, and remove roadblocks.
• Humble leadership style that motivates teams to achieve their highest potential.

• Manage and grow a squad of data privacy engineers, including hiring and performance management.
• Own the quarterly data privacy roadmap in partnership with the Product Manager.
• Drive execution on core privacy capabilities such as consent management, automated DSAR handling, data retention pipelines, and PII classification.
• Ensure operational health of privacy systems including SLAs, audit completeness, and conduct postmortems.
• Collaborate with Legal, Security, Compliance, and other engineering teams to embed privacy early in product design.
• Represent data privacy engineering in cross-tribe forums and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Champion privacy-by-design practices and accessible documentation.
• Participate in hiring, capacity planning, code reviews, and mentoring engineers.
• Promote continuous improvement culture and HelloFresh DNA.