Senior Backend Engineer, Revenue Engine
Senior Backend Engineer, Revenue Engine
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About CookUnity:
Food has lost its soul to modern convenience. And with it 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 50 million meals a year from the industrys 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 youve found the right job posting.
About the Team:
The Revenue Engine Squad is responsible for the core platform and systems that power monetary transactions within CookUnitys eCommerce marketplace including pricing payments refunds promotions and order finalization. Our mission is to maximize revenue efficiency streamline payment flows and build a flexible financial system that adapts to evolving business needs while ensuring every transaction is processed securely and accurately.
As CookUnity scales we are investing in centralizing payment processing to improve transaction reliability minimize failures and create a frictionless payment experience. This high-impact team plays a critical role in business growth by building scalable high-performing financial infrastructure that supports a seamless marketplace experience.
The role:
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Revenue Engine Squad in the Marketplace Zone. This role is ideal for an engineer with deep expertise in payment systems payment processing and service-oriented architecture. You will play a crucial role in designing and developing scalable reliable backend systems that process millions of dollars in transactions.
You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Product Marketing Finance and Legal to build robust services that empower our marketplace. Your contributions will directly impact our ability to scale and improve our customer experience.
Responsibilities:
- Design develop and maintain scalable backend services for payment processing pricing and refunds.
- Integrate payment gateways and 3rd party integrations
- Optimize payment success rates by improving retry mechanisms fraud detection and error handling
- Develop and implement features to support promotions subscriptions and order finalization workflows
- Work on multi-currency support and international payment processing
- Define and uphold engineering best practices in security scalability performance and code quality
- Improve the maturity of our technical stack through engineering best practices and process automation
- Monitor and enhance system performance
- Participate in code reviews mentorship and technical decision-making
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including finance legal and security to ensure compliance and fraud prevention
Minimum Requirements:
- 5 years of experience in backend development with expertise in Kotlin Java and SQL databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL)
- Strong knowledge of payment processing systems and experience integrating with third-party payment providers like Stripe PayPal
- Experience designing and building scalable cloud-based architectures and distributed systems
- Expertise in service-oriented architectures API design and microservices development
- Strong knowledge of database design implementation and query optimization
- Experience with system performance monitoring logging and observability
- Ability to write clean maintainable and testable code
- Advanced level of English with strong communication skills both verbal and written
Preferred requirements:
- Experience working in high-transaction volume eCommerce or fintech environments
- Knowledge of PCI compliance fraud detection and payment security best practices
- Experience with Saga pattern and orchestration frameworks such as Temporal to manage distributed transactions and workflows
- Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues (e.g. Kafka RabbitMQ)
- Experience in subscription billing models and recurring payments
- Prior experience working in a fast-paced startup environment
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
If youre interested in this role please submit your application and if we think you might be a fit well 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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
