About CookUnity

Food has lost its soul to modern convenience. And with it, it has lost the power to nourish, inspire, and connect us. So in 2018, CookUnity was founded as the first-of-its-kind platform that connects the world with the source of truly great food: chefs. Today, CookUnity delivers 50 million meals a year from the industry’s best chefs to homes all over the country. Fresh. Ready-to-eat. And crafted with the passion that nourishes body and soul.

Unwilling to stop there, CookUnity is expanding beyond delivery to become an ever-innovating marketplace focused on our singular mission: empower Chefs to nourish the world.

If that mission has you hungry in more ways than one, you’ve found the right job posting.

About the Team

As a fundamental pillar of the platform, Horizon 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: Horizon ensures that diverse user segments have access to tailored plans and subscription models, optimizing their experience within the platform. This involves continuous iteration and experimentation to provide the best possible journey for each type of user.

Order Management and Integrity: Horizon acts as the source of truth for user orders, ensuring their accuracy and reliability. The team handles critical processes such as order creation, autopilot selection, and delivery eligibility based on user addresses, guaranteeing a seamless experience from selection to fulfillment.

By combining a strong user experience focus with backend robustness, Horizon plays a vital role in shaping the way users interact with CookUnity and ensuring operational stability across the platform.

The Role

As a Staff Full Stack Engineer on the Horizons Squad, you will play a crucial role in leading technical initiatives, driving architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers as we scale our user experiences. You’ll work on building and optimizing backend services and APIs that power CookUnity’s experience. This role involves working on the Server-Driven UI (SDUI) service within our Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architecture, as well as developing and maintaining backend services and databases.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced engineer who thrives on complexity and enjoys designing scalable, resilient, and high-performing backend systems. You will collaborate closely with engineering leadership, product managers, and cross-functional teams—including Data teams—to build and improve mission-critical infrastructure that enables personalized user experiences across our platform.

We’re looking for someone who can bring strong system design expertise, lead projects from concept to deployment, and set a high technical bar for the team while driving forward best practices in software engineering.

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 our users tailor-made content that adjust 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 our 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

Minimum 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.

Ideal Requirements

Experience with DevOps tools and cloud platforms, including Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS

Experience with React Native.

Learn More About CookUnity

We believe great leadership starts with alignment on vision, values, and ways of working. To give you deeper insight into who we are and what we’re looking for, we invite you to explore: CookUnity's Leadership Principles – The values and behaviors that guide how we operate, collaborate, and scale.

We hope this provides valuable insight into our culture and product vision. If this excites you, we’d love to connect!

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

If you’re interested in this role, please submit your application, and if we think you might be a fit, we'll get in touch with you. Thank you for your time!

CookUnity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated 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.

A quick note for all candidates We’ve recently seen an increase in recruitment scams across the industry, and we want to make sure you (and your data) stay safe while applying to CookUnity. We also want you to know that we take this seriously — sometimes, as part of our process, we may ask for a brief “proof of humanity” to confirm that we’re connecting with a real person, not an impersonator. Here are a few tips to help you protect yourself and know what to expect from us:

Apply only through our official channels. All open roles are listed on our official careers page: careers.cookunity.com

Our recruiters are real people — and easy to verify. You can always find them on LinkedIn with verified profiles. If you’re unsure, feel free to reach out to us on our official LinkedIn Company Page.

We only communicate through official CookUnity channels. That means emails ending in @cookunity.com and interviews held through official company platforms (Google Meet or Zoom) — never WhatsApp, Telegram, or SMS.

We’ll never ask for payment or personal financial details. If anyone does, please don’t share any information and let us know right away.

If something ever feels off or you’re unsure about a message, we’d much rather you double-check with us. You can always contact us directly through any of our social media channels. We appreciate your interest in joining CookUnity — and we care about keeping your experience (and safety) as genuine as possible.