Chief Technology Officer, CookUnity

• If you are passionate about guiding teams to reach their full potential and are ready to shape the future of CookUnity, we want to hear from you
• 10+ years of software development and engineering leadership experience
• Proven track record of scaling an engineering organization from 30 to 200+ people
• Leadership experience at a startup with the poise needed to inspire composure in others during stressful times
• Strong background in marketplaces or complex e-commerce fulfillment/operational businesses
• Experience leading distributed global teams, particularly in Latin America
• Demonstrated excellence in building strong relationships and effectively collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, ensuring seamless integration and alignment across the organization
• A deep interest in and passion for CookUnity's mission to change the way we eat and how Chefs cook
• Demonstrated ability to balance business priorities with technological advancement
• History of successfully migrating legacy systems to modern architectures
• Expertise in building and scaling microservices infrastructures
• Share a passion for CookUnity's mission to transform the culinary landscape
• If you are passionate about using cutting-edge technology to transform the food industry and have a proven history of scaling engineering teams and infrastructure, we want to connect with you

Desirable

• We are seeking a visionary and accomplished Chief Technology Officer to spearhead the transformation of CookUnity's engineering team and elevate our operational scale across the United States
• As a pivotal senior leader, you will be the driving force behind our transition from a "very good" to a "world-class" engineering culture
• Your role will encompass mentoring and empowering our current engineering leads, fostering a culture of excellence, and inspiring the team with your technical acumen and strategic insights
• The role oversees our engineering team (including product engineers, platform engineers, mobile engineers, data engineers, and our devops team) as well as our Quality team and Data Science team
• You'll report to our Founder/CEO, and, as a key leader in the company, you'll partner closely with the Leadership Team to deliver a breakthrough experience
• We care deeply about helping our customers eat better and believe the key is a simple, habit-forming subscription with the widest variety of high-quality meals available
• We have designed our whole strategy around this
• To achieve our goals, our subscription platform must scale efficiently without becoming overly complex
• Simultaneously, our personalization engine needs to understand our customers so well that they are confident they will love their meals every week As a company that primarily delivers “atoms” not just “bits”, we also need to master the operational intricacies of ingredient sourcing, production, and fulfillment logistics
• Actively participate in the company-level quarterly planning process and lead setting OKRs for the engineering organization
• Collaborate with other product development partners to set long-term and short-term roadmaps, and execution
• Increase velocity to support business innovation and rapid experimentation with a healthy balance of quality and excellence
• Provide the rest of the organization transparency into the development process, challenges, and opportunities
• Attract, develop, and retain world-class engineering talent passionate about our mission. Establish accountability within teams, focusing on measurable output and results
• Determine the best way to balance people and budget across our key product development centers in NYC and Buenos Aires, as well as how we should further incorporate remote talent
• Anticipate challenges and bottlenecks in the next phases of growth and map out "the right" solutions to address those without unnecessarily over-investing
• Provide thought leadership on our data infrastructure and the best way to leverage data to deliver delightful experiences for our customers
• Build on what has worked well with our existing culture while challenging the norms holding us back from achieving our mission and vision
• Drive technological innovation to support our complex ingredient sourcing, production, and fulfillment logistics
• Lead the migration from the remaining legacy technology stack to the latest stack
• Design and implement a scalable microservices architecture capable of handling 100k-1m requests per minute
• Drive R&D initiatives to keep CookUnity at the forefront of food tech innovation. Adopt and invest in AI aggressively
• Implement a full software testing lifecycle to ensure clean codebases and bug-free releases
• Instate policies and design patterns across IT departments to ensure code quality and consistency