Senior Backend Software Engineer, CookUnity

CA$130-140k

+ Stock Options Plan

Senior and Expert level
Toronto

1 day a week in office (The Annex, Toronto)

CookUnity

Ready-meal delivery marketplace

Job no longer available

CookUnity

Ready-meal delivery marketplace

201-500 employees

B2CMarketplaceSustainabilityFoodConsumer GoodsDelivery

Job no longer available

CA$130-140k

+ Stock Options Plan

Senior and Expert level
Toronto

1 day a week in office (The Annex, Toronto)

201-500 employees

B2CMarketplaceSustainabilityFoodConsumer GoodsDelivery

Company mission

CookUnity is on a mission to unlock the world’s best food creators and bring their meals to the masses.

Role

Who you are

  • Have some experience building and shipping complex backend features and systems
  • Passion for shipping world-class products for our users (both consumers and cooks)!
  • Have excellent communication skills and are able to thrive on small, collaborative engineering teams
  • Have experience in a fast-paced environment
  • Willing to experiment with, test, and learn new technologies
  • Handle ambiguity and quickly evolving priorities
  • Be self-motivated and eager to learn new things!

Desirable

  • Excited about uniting people through food!
  • Worked at an early-stage (Series A or earlier) startup previously

What the job involves

  • We’re looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer with an affinity for solving tough problems to join the Cookin engineering team. Cookin is building the “Shopify for Food Creators” and we want to do it with passionate creators like you
  • You’ll work closely with our small but mighty engineering and product team to move fast and build the best tooling for independent chefs on the market
  • Come join an all-star team of tech talent, consisting of former Apple and Wealthsimple engineers
  • Build performant APIs and services with an eye towards maximizing for end-user experience
  • Collaborate with a cross-functional team to build new features, refine existing systems, and design new complex backend features
  • Build Temporal workflows to orchestrate complex business logic
  • Our Tech Stack:
  • On the backend: Kotlin, Micronaut, Google Cloud (Cloud Run), Postgres, Temporal
  • On the frontend: React Native, React, NextJS, TypeScript, Tamagui, and Tailwind
  • Other tools: Notion, GitHub Actions, Linear, Slack

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Insights

Top investors

30% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • 📈 We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1
  • 🏖 Unlimited PTO policy and paid holidays off
  • 🐣 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

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Apr 2023

$47m

LATE VC

Sep 2021

$47m

SERIES B

Total funding: $119.3m

Our take

CookUnity is a meal subscription service which connects consumers with some of the country's best known chefs, including Esther Choi, Chris Ratel and Andy Mendez. Consumers can select from a menu of handcrafted meals that cater to a wide variety of palates and dietary preferences. Believing that healthy food fuels stronger communities, CookUnity contributes to an ongoing partnership and donation with the Food Bank For New York City.

The New York founded business hit the headlines for its upward trajectory in 2020, where it secured 15.5 million in funding and saw an expected boost not just in demand, but in the supply of top culinary talent at a time when restaurants were struggling.

While there’s a wide world of meal plan delivery services, CookUnity has a jump on much of the competition as it’s the first service that connects such eminent chefs directly with the customer. This has allowed it to expand across much of the US, and it now prepares over 10 million meals annually for its 50,000 subscribers.

With most of the urban US now covered by its service, CookUnity is moving into the next phase of its growth, expanding the range of sellers and food products on the platform, and has plans to offer family-sized portions, brekfast options and cooking classes using its existing physical and digital infrastructure. This will enable it to grow into an all-in-one meal subscription service over the coming years.

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