Staff Full Stack Engineer, Horizons
CookUnity
WorldwideremotePosted 2 months ago
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Key highlights
- Compensation: Paid in USD (specific salary not stated)
- Required experience: 8+ years of full stack/backend software development
- Remote work: Design your own life with remote flexibility
- AI-forward workplace: Enterprise access to ChatGPT and Claude
- Sabbatical: 4-week paid sabbatical after 5 years of employment
- Healthcare: Monthly stipend for preferred healthcare provider
Role overview
CookUnity is a mission-driven food platform founded in 2018, delivering 50 million meals annually from top chefs to homes nationwide. The company is expanding beyond delivery into an ever-innovating marketplace focused on empowering chefs to nourish the world. The Horizons team enables diverse business models and subscription plans while serving as the source of truth for order management, ensuring accuracy and reliability across the platform.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable backend services that power CookUnity's personalization systems
- Define and drive architectural improvements that enhance system reliability, scalability, and maintainability
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product and Data teams to provide users tailor-made content that adapts to their needs
- Mentor and guide other engineers, setting a high standard for technical excellence and a culture of proactive ownership
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies, frameworks, AI adoptions that improve the backend stack and development velocity
- Improve system observability, performance, and resilience, ensuring uptime and smooth operation of revenue-critical systems
- Contribute as a hands-on engineer, writing clean, well-tested, and efficient code, leading by example
- Lead technical planning and project execution, breaking down complex problems into manageable solutions and driving initiatives to on-time completion
- Support the on-call rotation to help the business run 24/7
- Build and optimize backend services and APIs that power CookUnity's experience
- Work on the Server-Driven UI (SDUI) service within the Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architecture
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in full stack/backend software development, with expertise in React, Kotlin, TypeScript, and SQL databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL)
- Proven experience in architecting and scaling complex backend systems in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, and event-driven architecture
- Deep understanding of system performance and scalability best practices
- Proven ability to translate complex, ambiguous requirements into clear, actionable plans that drive alignment and timely delivery
- Advanced English communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Demonstrated experience in mentoring and guiding engineers
- Fluency with AI engineering tools
Nice to have
- Experience with DevOps tools and cloud platforms, including Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
- Experience with React Native
Benefits
- Get paid in USD
- Work remotely: design the life that you want
- Enjoy 15 days of vacation each year from the start date
- 16 fully paid Argentinean holidays
- Healthcare Benefit: Monthly stipend to use in your preferred healthcare provider
- 5-year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical
- Paid Family leave
- Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises
- Flexible benefits, your way: a prepaid card you can use on wellness, learning, food, and more
- AI-forward workplace: enterprise access to ChatGPT and Claude to help you work smarter and grow faster
- Personalized English coach
Additional details
- This is a Staff Full Stack Engineer role on the Horizons Squad
- The role involves working on the Server-Driven UI (SDUI) service within CookUnity's Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architecture
- The team handles critical processes such as order creation, autopilot selection, and delivery eligibility based on user addresses
- The Horizons team enables different business models within CookUnity, ensuring that users can seamlessly subscribe to plans, manage their preferences, and successfully place their orders
- The team is responsible for two key areas: Enabling Business Models and Subscriptions, and Order Management and Integrity
- CookUnity delivers 50 million meals a year from the industry's best chefs to homes all over the country
- The company is expanding beyond delivery to become an ever-innovating marketplace
- CookUnity was founded in 2018
- CookUnity is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability
- The company has recently seen an increase in recruitment scams across the industry
- Apply only through official channels on their careers page
- Recruiters are real people with verified LinkedIn profiles
- Communication only through official CookUnity channels: emails ending in @cookunity.com and interviews through Google Meet or Zoom
- Never ask for payment or personal financial details
- Contact through social media channels if something feels off
- This role was originally posted on Himalayas
- The job posting includes a 'quick note for all candidates' warning about recruitment scams