[Hiring] Semi Senior Full Stack Engineer @CookUnity

Role Description

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer to join the Menu Team, where you will play a key role in building and optimizing backend services and APIs that power CookUnity’s menu experience. This role involves working on the Server-Driven UI (SDUI) service within our Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architecture, as well as developing and maintaining backend services and databases.

As part of a cross-functional team, you will collaborate closely with product managers, mobile/web engineers, and designers to create an engaging menu experience. This is a great opportunity for a semi-senior engineer eager to work on challenging technical problems while contributing to customer-facing products that directly impact user engagement and satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power the menu experience across mobile and web.
• Implement and optimize the BFF (Backend-for-Frontend) layer, ensuring efficient data handling and low-latency API responses.
• Collaborate with frontend, mobile, and product teams to design and implement new menu-related features.
• Optimize database queries and caching strategies for high-performance API responses.
• Improve monitoring, observability, and logging for backend services.
• Participate in code reviews and engineering discussions, contributing to technical best practices.

Qualifications

• +3 years of experience with:
• Backend development, with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Typescript and ReactJS web apps, or similar.
• Backend development, with expertise in Kotlin or other JVM based language.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and backend-for-frontend (BFF).
• Experience working with SQL databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL) and optimizing queries.
• Familiarity with service-oriented architecture and microservices.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills for backend services and APIs.
• Solid understanding of performance optimization, caching, and API response efficiency.
• Prior experience working on (or with) established design systems.
• Advanced English communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams.
• Fluency with AI engineering tools.

Preferred Requirements

• Knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with observability tools like DataDog and logging frameworks.
• Proficiency with leveraging AI Coding tools in day-to-day development (Cursor, Windsurf, or similar).

Benefits

• 💸 Get paid in USD, Crypto, Euro, ARS. Whatever your choice! We use Deel to make things easier for you!
• 🗺 Work remotely: design the life that you want.
• ⛱ Enjoy 15 days of vacation each year from the start date.
• 🎄 16 fully paid Argentinean holidays.
• 🗓️ 5-year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical.
• 🐣 Family leave of 12 weeks for primary caregiver and 6 weeks for secondary caregiver, fully paid.
• 🕯 Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises.
• 🧘🏽‍♀️ Customize the benefits that suit your needs! Access a range of perks tailored to you, including learning opportunities, wellness memberships, delivery apps, and more through our comprehensive benefit platform.
• 🧑‍🏫 Personalized English coach.