Staff Frontend Engineer, CookUnity
Flavrs, React Native
$160-180k
Offers stock options and bi-annual performance bonus
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
Be an early applicant
Ready-meal delivery marketplace
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-180k
Offers stock options and bi-annual performance bonus
201-500 employees
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
- 7+ years of experience with React Native and a strong grasp of the mobile development ecosystem
- Fluency in TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and other core web technologies
- Exposure to native iOS stack
- Strong track record of collaborating with Product and Design to build impactful mobile experiences
- Ability to translate designs—from low-fidelity wireframes to polished redlines—into clean, maintainable code
- Strong product and design sensibility; you care about the “why” behind the feature
- A self-starter mindset; you take ownership and drive initiatives with minimal oversight
Desirable
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining high-quality consumer applications at scale
- Familiarity with frontend tooling such as Expo/EAS, Storybook, Jest, or Restyle
- Experience in (or enthusiasm for) working at a fast-moving startup, where ambiguity is embraced and ownership is encouraged
What the job involves
- You will be joining CookUnity’s Content & Creator team
- We’re reimagining the customer experience to be more immersive and chef-centric—bringing rich content, short-form video, and storytelling to the forefront of how users discover meals and connect with our creators
- Our mission is to transform the platform from a utility into an experience that celebrates culinary creativity and deepens engagement with our chef community
- We’re looking for a seasoned Staff React Native Engineer to join our Content & Creator team
- In this role, you’ll be embedded in a cross-functional feature team, collaborating closely with Product, Design, and fellow engineers to deliver rich, high-impact user experiences
- You’ll help shape the future of our user-facing platform—driving technical excellence, championing best practices, and leading initiatives that push the boundaries of interactivity, performance, and visual storytelling
- Your work will play a key role in evolving CookUnity into a more content-forward, immersive, and chef-centric platform
- Build and ship high-quality, engaging, user-facing features across our mobile and web apps
- Champion performance, reliability, and code quality across the React Native codebase
- Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to define and implement exceptional user experiences
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers, helping elevate engineering standards across the team
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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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
- 📈 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
Company HQ
Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY
Leadership
Mateo Marietti
(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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