Staff Data Engineer, CookUnity
CA$190-210k
1 day a week in office
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
Be an early applicant
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$190-210k
1 day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower chefs everywhere to nourish the world through our shared love of great food.
Role
Who you are
- If you have a passion for shaping the future of an organization with your analytical skills, this role offers an exciting opportunity to fulfill your aspirations
- 7+ years of experience in backend software engineering
- Proficient in Java, Scala, or Python, with deep expertise in data processing tech and in writing complex SQL queries
- 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 and building for the best user UX
- Proven track record in designing, building, and operating robust distributed data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Spark, Flink, Kafka), and handling large data sets
- Demonstrable experience of building, productionalizing, and optimizing real-time and batch data pipelines
Desirable
- Experience designing data architectures to power a variety of use cases, including enabling experimentation
- 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 or an early stage startup environment
- A passion for food!
What the job involves
- Our Data Team is a highly dynamic and innovative group that excels in solving complex business challenges and propelling the growth of an enterprise through analytical expertise. We provide crucial insights that empower individuals across the company to make better decisions, ultimately increasing efficiency
- This is a rare opportunity to work at a rapid growth scale-up company and build on an entirely new system to set the engineering foundation and principles across the org
- You will partner closely with the engineering team to translate data needs into scalable, production-ready solutions
- You will design & build net new data pipelines and systems that form the future base of our B2C data engineering stack, and set in place best practices and patterns for the entire CookUnity data engineering org to adopt
- We’re looking for someone excited about the prospect of taking an existing product that’s growing rapidly and helping to rebuild key components of our system. This will help set CookUnity up to scale gracefully for our next years of rapid growth, reduce overall system complexity, enable greater product experimentation, and enable product teams to build incredible features faster
- Design and build net new resilient batch and real-time data pipelines that power critical products and drive rapid business growth
- Design and build data pipelines facilitating the migration from existing disparate data models and data sources, into new data models and databases in production
- Champion data reliability and performance by implementing proactive monitoring and quality-first engineering practices
- Optimize data models to support fast, efficient decision-making across high-impact product and business use cases
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and data science teams to quickly translate evolving business needs into scalable, production-ready data solutions
- Shape the future of data engineering at scale, helping define the long-term roadmap and setting best practices as we grow
- Coach and level up teammates, fostering a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Demonstrate strong self-direction and thrive in environments with high ambiguity, making sound decisions even when clear solutions are not readily apparent
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 $15.5M 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 10M 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, breakfast 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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2023
$47m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$47m
SERIES B
Total funding: $119.3m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Plan to invest in your future
- Paid Parental Leave
- Wellness Benefit to support your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing
- Unlimited Paid Vacation & Sick Days
- 4-Week Paid Sabbatical after 5 years with us
- Compassionate leave each time the need arises
- Remote/Hybrid/On Site Options
- Employee Stock Options Plan
- Bi-annual bonus based on performance
- Planning Sessions twice a year: New York & Buenos Aires
- Spanish/English Lessons with a private coach
- Monthly CookUnity Credits to enjoy meals crafted by our creators
- Once a month in-person gatherings to fuel connection and belonging
- Chef-Led Culinary Trips to foodie destinations (twice a year)
Company HQ
Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY
Leadership
Mateo Marietti
(Co-Founder & CEO)Born on a farm in Argentina, Mateo is on a mission to make great real food available for all and a more fair and sustainable food system. He has built 10+ food brands that delivered more than 25M meals combined in the last 13 years, including SUSHIPOP and La Causa.
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