Senior Frontend Engineer, Engineering Foundation

About CookUnity

Food has lost its soul to modern convenience. And with it, has lost the power to nourish, inspire, and connect us. So in 2018, CookUnity was founded as the first-of-its-kind platform that connects the world with the source of truly great food: chefs. Today, CookUnity delivers 35 million meals a year from the industry’s best chefs to homes all over the country. Fresh. Ready-to-eat. And crafted with the passion that nourishes body and soul.

Unwilling to stop there, CookUnity is expanding beyond delivery to become an ever-innovating marketplace focused on our singular mission: empower Chefs to nourish the world.

If that mission has you hungry in more ways than one, you’ve found the right job posting.

The Team:

The Engineering Foundation team is a newly formed team responsible for ensuring the overall 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:

This is a rare opportunity to work at a rapid growth scaleup company and build on an entirely net new system to set the engineering foundation and principles across the org.

As a Senior Frontend Software Engineer on the Engineering Foundation team, you’ll play a critical role in defining the direction for the future of CookUnity’s frontend architecture. You will build net new mobile/web apps that form the future base of our customer-facing experience, 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 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, and enable product teams to build incredible features faster.

Responsibilities:

• Rebuild key parts of CookUnity's architecture to support rapid growth, improve resilience, and enable product teams to deliver faster, high-quality user experiences.


• Establish opinionated, high-quality engineering practices for new features and progressively apply them to existing systems across the org.


• Demonstrate strong self-direction and thrive in environments with high ambiguity, making sound decisions even when clear solutions are not readily apparent.


• Write clean, efficient, well-tested code to set a high standard and lead by example as a hands-on engineer.


• Partner across Engineering, Product, and Business teams to develop new systems or reengineer existing ones collaboratively.


• Mentor teams and individuals to inspire innovation and maintain high technical standards throughout the engineering organization.

Minimum Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in frontend 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 and building for the best user UX.


• Strong knowledge of mobile and web development best practices.


• Demonstrable experience shipping high quality web or mobile apps to production.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience with some or all of: Typescript, ReactJS, NextJS, Tailwind, React Native, Expo.


• Proficiency with leveraging AI Coding tools in day to day development, similar to Cursor.


• 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!

Benefits:

🩺Health Insurance coverage.

⛱ Unlimited PTO policy.

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

🌅 401k Plan.

🐣 Paid family leave.

🕯 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!

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

Learn More About CookUnity:

We believe great leadership starts with alignment on vision, values, and ways of working. To give you deeper insight into who we are and what we’re looking for, we invite you to explore: CookUnity's Leadership Principles – The values and behaviors that guide how we operate, collaborate, and scale.

We hope this provides valuable insight into our culture and product vision. If this excites you, we’d love to connect!

#LI-Hybrid

Compensation

All final pay rates will be determined by candidates experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

Pay Range for this position

$150,000—$165,000 USD

If you’re interested in this role, please submit your application and if we think you might be a fit, we'll get in touch with you. Thank you for your time!

CookUnity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.