CookUnity
Senior Backend Engineer (Kotlin/Java), Menu - Marketplace
Job Summary
The role involves developing and maintaining scalable backend services and APIs to support CookUnity’s menu experience across mobile and web platforms. The engineer will work within a cross-functional team to optimize data handling, improve performance, and collaborate on new features, with a focus on backend-for-frontend architecture. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in backend development, particularly with Kotlin, Node.js, and TypeScript, and familiarity with REST, GraphQL, and SQL databases. Benefits include remote work options, healthcare stipends, paid time off, holidays, and opportunities for professional growth.
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Job Description
Food has lost its soul to modern convenience. And with 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 35 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.
The Team:
The Menu Team is part of CookUnity’s Marketplace Zone, which focuses on creating a seamless and scalable platform that connects chefs with consumers. As the heart of the platform, the menu represents one of the most important interaction users have with CookUnity, enabling them to browse, explore, and choose meals.
The team is responsible for two key areas:
- User-Facing Menu Experience: Provide the best menu exploration experience to our users across mobile and web. This involves experimentation and iteration in search, discovery, meal displays, and menu taxonomy to maximize engagement and satisfaction.
- Provider and Source of Truth for Menu Data: Responsible for the accuracy, stability, and availability of critical consumer-facing menu data that powers multiple parts of the platform, both within and outside the Marketplace Zone.
The Role:
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Menu Team, where you will play a key role in building and optimizing backend services and APIs that power CookUnity’s menu 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.
As part of a cross-functional team, you will collaborate closely with product managers, mobile/web engineers, and designers to create an engaging menu experience. This is a great opportunity for a semi-senior engineer eager to work on challenging technical problems while contributing to customer-facing products that directly impact user engagement and satisfaction.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power the menu experience across mobile and web.
- Implement and optimize the BFF (Backend-for-Frontend) layer, ensuring efficient data handling and low-latency API responses.
- Collaborate with frontend, mobile, and product teams to design and implement new menu-related features.
- Optimize database queries and caching strategies for high-performance API responses.
- Improve monitoring, observability, and logging for backend services.
- Participate in code reviews and engineering discussions, contributing to technical best practices.
Minimum Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in backend development, with expertise in Kotlin.
- Experience in backend development, with Node.js and TypeScript.
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and backend-for-frontend (BFF)
- Experience working with SQL databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL) and optimizing queries.
- Familiarity with service-oriented architecture and microservices.
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills for backend services and APIs.
- Solid understanding of performance optimization, caching, and API response efficiency.
- Advanced English communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams.
Preferred Requirements:
- Knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud infrastructure.
- Familiarity with observability tools like DataDog and logging frameworks.
- Understanding of GraphQL APIs and schema design best practices.
Benefits:
💸 Get paid in USD. Whatever your choice! We use Deel to make things easier for you!
🗺 Work remotely: design the life that you want.
⛱ Enjoy 15 business days of vacation each year from the start date.
🩺 Healthcare Benefit: Monthly stipend to use in your preferred healthcare provider.
🎄 16 fully paid Argentinean holidays.
🕯 Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises.
🐣 Paid family leave.
🧑🏫 Personalized English coach.
🧘🏻♀️Customize the benefits that suit your needs! Access a range of perks tailored to you, including learning opportunities, wellness memberships, delivery apps, and more through our comprehensive benefit platform.
🗓️ 5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical.
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.
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