Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Foundation

About the Team:

The Engineering Foundation team is a newly formed team responsible for ensuring the backend architecture supports the company’s rapid growth and provides an excellent experience for all CookUnity users.

We’re undertaking a large re-architecture of many systems across the engineering stack, and we’ll shape (and build) the future frameworks, technologies, and patterns for the rest of the engineering org to leverage.

The Role:

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Engineering Foundation team, you’ll play a critical role in defining the direction for the future of CookUnity’s backend architecture. You will lead initiatives to improve upon existing systems across the company, decide whether something warrants being re-built or re-architected, and set in place best practices and patterns for the entire CookUnity engineering org to adopt.

We’re looking for someone who’s excited about the prospect of taking an existing product that’s growing rapidly and making necessary architectural changes to underlying system to improve overall reliability and resilience. This will help set CookUnity up to scale gracefully for our next years of rapid growth, reduce overall system complexity, and enable product teams to build incredible features faster.

Responsibilities:

• Lead an effort to evaluate and change the current overall backend architecture, to best set CookUnity up for continued rapid growth, enable better resilience across the system, and allow our product teams to build a best-in-class product.
• Build out high-quality, opinionated engineering best practices and patterns for the entire engineering org to adopt for all net new features and to gradually integrate into existing systems.
• Lead efforts to optimize system performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Contribute as a hands-on engineer to lead by example, including writing clean, well-tested, and efficient code.
• Collaborate cross-functionally across Engineering, Product, and Business teams to build new systems.
• Provide mentorship to engineering teams and individuals, to drive innovation and uphold high standards for technical excellence.

Minimum Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in backend software engineering.
• Proven track record of driving innovation within highly technical, distributed teams. You have driven complex projects to completion and are motivated by solving high-impact problems with reliable, scalable solutions.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems.
• A passion for helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers.

Preferred requirements:

• Experience with Temporal, or other durable execution engines and/or workflow orchestration engines.
• Be opinionated on engineering best practices and help contribute to our strong engineering culture.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, containers, etc).
• Past experience working in a rapid growth company environment.
• A passion for food!

Benefits:

🩺  Health Insurance coverage.

🌅 401k Plan.

📈 We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1.

⛱ PTO policy and paid sick days / Unlimited PTO.

🗓️ 5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical.

🐣 Family leave: ****12 weeks for primary caregiver and 6 weeks for secondary caregiver, fully paid

🕯 Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises.

🥘 A generous amount of CookUnity credits to enjoy our amazing meals, added to your account, monthly.

🧘🏽‍♀️ Wellness perks: access to a nutritional coach and fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle.

👩🏾‍🏫 Personalized Spanish coach.

🌟 Awesome opportunity to join a company that is looking to change how we eat and how chefs work!