CookUnity
Staff Full Stack Engineer, Authentication Services
Job Summary
The role involves leading the development and evolution of CookUnity's Identity Platform, focusing on scalability, security, and reliability. Responsibilities include defining architecture, building critical identity services, and ensuring operational excellence through monitoring and KPIs. The candidate should have expertise in authentication technologies such as OAuth 2, OpenID Connect, MFA, and SAML, as well as leadership and collaboration skills. The position offers remote work options and a range of employee benefits centered on work-life balance and 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 Growth Engineering team focuses on delivering an excellent customer experience from when a customer lands on CookUnity’s homepage through the sign-up process and finishing with checking out. The team tackles high-impact projects that delight our customers and deliver meaningful business value.
The Role:
We are looking for a skilled Staff Engineer to lead the evolution of CookUnity’s Identity Platform, a critical component powering seamless and secure experiences for our chefs and customers. You will define the long-term vision, architecture, and technical roadmap for identity management, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you’ll drive the implementation of robust authentication, authorization, and user management systems while owning key KPIs like uptime, performance, and security compliance. Your role will involve designing and maintaining tier-zero identity services that millions rely on daily. We need a hands-on technical leader who can align with product and engineering stakeholders to build a best-in-class Identity Platform that supports CookUnity’s growing ecosystem.
Responsibilities:
- Architectural Vision and Strategy:
- Define the long-term architectural vision for CookUnity's identity platform, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Develop and maintain a strategic technical roadmap aligned with business goals.
- Drive architectural decisions and ensure adherence to best practices.
- Platform Development and Optimization:
- Design, implement, and maintain critical tier-0 services that support chef onboarding, menu management, order processing, and customer experience.
- Ensure high availability, uptime, and performance of the platform.
- Identify and resolve complex technical challenges and performance bottlenecks.
- Contribute code, and do code reviews.
- Leadership and Mentorship:
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams.
- Mentor senior engineers, fostering their growth and development.
- Collaborate with product managers and engineering leaders to define and prioritize features.
- Influence other leaders within the company.
- Operational Excellence:
- Own critical KPIs related to platform availability, performance, and reliability.
- Implement robust monitoring and alerting systems to ensure platform stability.
- Drive continuous improvement in platform infrastructure and development processes.
- Industry Knowledge and Innovation:
- Stay abreast of industry trends and best practices, bringing innovative solutions to CookUnity.
- Contribute to the development of internal standards and guidelines.
Minimum Requirements:
- Prior experience with building authentication backends and frontends with hands-on experience with OAuth 2, OpenID Connect, MFA and SAML.
- Is a subject matter expert for Identify Management, Access Management, Governance and Access certification.
- Demonstrated ability to lead authentication initiatives from requirements to delivery.
- Solid understanding of how to scale authentication applications.
- Passion for shipping world-class products for our users!
- Have excellent communication skills for articulating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Are able to thrive on small, collaborative engineering teams.
- Have experience in a fast-paced environment and can handle ambiguity and quickly evolving priorities.
- Be self-motivated and eager to learn new things!
- Natural leadership qualities with the ability to inspire and guide cross-functional teams.
Preferred Requirements:
- Experience with frontend frameworks such as React or NextJS.
- Experience in the food technology sector is a plus.
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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