Director, Global WMS Software Engineering and Product Design

Join our R&D Tech Hub in Warsaw We’re building a new R&D Tech Hub in Poland and are looking for people who want to make a real impact from day one. You’ll be part of a globally connected team, helping to shape the culture and ways of working at our new location. This is a hands-on role in a supportive environment, where collaboration, learning, and adaptability are key. We value practical problem-solving, diverse perspectives, and people who take ownership. If you're ready to contribute to meaningful projects and help lay the foundation for a growing team, we’d like to hear from you. About the role: What's in the Box HelloFresh is searching for an action-oriented servant leader for our warehouse management system (WMS) Software Engineering and Product functions. This leader owns the full software delivery lifecycle for HelloFresh's global warehouse fulfillment and inventory control domain — from architecture and product design through engineering execution, quality assurance, and operational reliability. You will drive a culture of product & engineering excellence, leveraging modern agentic tooling and AI-assisted workflows to increase team velocity, reduce defect escape rates, and accelerate deployment confidence. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders across technology, operations, automation/production technology, procurement, and finance to deliver innovative solutions on our strategic WMS platform — Infios's Warehouse Advantage (Körber/Highjump) — while balancing competing priorities and technical resource demand. The Director of WMS Engineering and Product will work with key technology and product leaders across HelloFresh to enable the inventory management and control domain strategy, evaluate technology-related priorities, and translate stakeholder needs into actionable roadmaps. The ideal candidate combines impeccable management and communication skills with a practitioner's instinct for modern software delivery — knowing how to build high-performing teams, establish engineering health metrics, and integrate AI-assisted tooling that meaningfully accelerates quality and velocity. What you’ll do: The Recipe WMS Solution Ownership: Provide technical direction, development oversight, and performance accountability for HelloFresh's deployment of Infios's Warehouse Advantage (Körber/Highjump) WMS platform across all global locations Integration Architecture & Reliability: Drive WMS application layer Integration architecture to upstream tooling and host systems via CI/CD pipelines [Debezium/Kafka to Snowflake/Databricks] Platform Architecture: Partner/ support as needed the Hosting Architecture team in the optimal sizing and performance of WMS Architecture in AWS Agentic Engineering & Developer Productivity: Champion and drive adoption of agentic engineering practices across the team: automated code review tooling (e.g., AI-assisted PR analysis, static analysis agents, LLM-powered code quality gates), AI-augmented test generation and execution, and intelligent deployment pipelines. Measure and report the impact of these practices on delivery velocity and defect escape rate CI/CD & Deployment Automation: Own the maturity roadmap for CI/CD pipelines. Establish automated deployment workflows with robust rollback strategies, feature flagging, environment-specific gate checks, and infrastructure-as-code practices — enabling high-confidence, low-friction releases across all WMS environments Quality Engineering & Test Automation: Partner with WMS Services and Support leadership to build a world-class QA function. Drive adoption of automated regression suites, AI-assisted edge case generation, and contract testing for integrations. Push teams beyond happy-path coverage toward comprehensive scenario validation, including automated performance and load testing for peak fulfillment periods Engineering Metrics & Continuous Improvement: Establish DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time for