Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Activation
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Job Location:
Buenos Aires - Argentina
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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 Activation Team is part of CookUnitys Growth organization and focuses on shaping the user journey during the earliest and most critical moments of their lifecycle. The teams mission is to turn new and returning users into loyal CookUnity customers by helping them understand the platform build ordering habits and experience value quickly.
The team is responsible for three key areas:
- Activation & Onboarding: Own the onboarding and early lifecycle experience with a strong focus on the first five weeks. This includes educating users about the platform reducing friction and creating experiences that encourage early repeat orders and long term loyalty.
- Referrals: Own the end to end referrals experience for both referrers and referees enabling existing users to invite others and driving high quality efficient user acquisition through word of mouth.
- Reactivation: Own the reactivation of churned or inactive users by designing experiences messaging and incentives that bring users back to the platform and re-establish engagement.
The role:
We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer to join the Activation Team where you will play a key role in building and optimizing backend services and APIs that power CookUnitys activation referral and reactivation experiences. This role involves working on Server-Driven UI (SDUI) services 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 engaging user experiences across onboarding referrals and reactivation flows. This is a great opportunity for someone eager to work on challenging technical problems while contributing to customer facing products that directly impact user activation retention and growth.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power Activation Referral and Reactivation experiences across mobile and web.
- Build and iterate on user-facing experiences using a Server-Driven UI (SDUI) and BFF architecture owning features from backend through frontend delivery.
- Partner closely with Product Design and Mobile/Web engineers to deliver high-quality end-to-end features that impact user activation and retention.
- Optimize database queries caching strategies and API performance to support high-traffic customer-facing flows.
- Improve monitoring observability and logging to ensure reliability and fast issue detection.
- Participate in code reviews technical discussions and architectural decisions contributing to shared engineering standards and best practices
Minimum Requirements:
- 5 years of professional experience as a Full Stack Engineer (or equivalent experience across frontend and backend)
- Strong experience building backend services using and TypeScript in production environments
- Strong experience building user facing web applications using TypeScript and React
- Solid understanding of frontend backend interactions including state management data fetching and performance considerations
- Experience working with SQL databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL) including query optimization
- Familiarity with service oriented architectures and microservices
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across both frontend and backend
- Solid understanding of performance optimization including API efficiency and frontend performance
- Experience working with or contributing to established design systems
- Advanced English communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams
Ideal requirements:
- Experience with Kotlin or another JVM-based language (e.g. Java Scala) or a strong willingness to learn Kotlin
- Proficiency with leveraging AI Coding tools in day to day development (Cursor Windsurf or similar).
- Experience with authentication and authorization flows (B2C JWTs)
- Knowledge of AWS Kubernetes Terraform and cloud infrastructure
- Familiarity with observability tools like DataDog and logging frameworks
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 were looking for we invite you to explore:CookUnitys 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 wed love to connect!
Benefits
Get paid in USD
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.
A quick note for all candidates
Weve recently seen an increase in recruitment scams across the industry and we want to make sure you (and your data)stay safe while applying to CookUnity.We also want you to know that we take this seriously sometimes as part of our process we may ask for a briefproof of humanity to confirm that were connecting with a real person not an impersonator. Here are a few tips to help you protect yourself and know what to expect from us:
- Apply only through our official channels. All open roles are listed on our official careers page:
- Our recruiters are real people and easy to verify. You can always find them on LinkedIn with verified profiles. If youre unsure feel free to reach out to us on our officialLinkedIn Company Page.
- We only communicate through official CookUnity channels. That means emails ending in
@and interviews held through official company platforms (Google Meet or Zoom) never WhatsApp Telegram or SMS. - Well never ask for payment or personal financial details. If anyone does please dont share any information and let us know right away.
If something ever feels off or youre unsure about a message wed much rather you double-check with us. You can always contact us directly through any of our social media channels. We appreciate your interest in joining CookUnity and we care about keeping your experience (and safety) as genuine as possible.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Business
- Marketing
- Key Decision Makers
- Active Directory
- Customer Service
- Performance Evaluations
- Federal Regulations
- Communications
- Account Management
- Project Management
- Minimum Data Set
- Budget management
- Powerpoint
- Direct Reports
About Company
CookUnity offers flexible and convenient subscription plans that match your needs and taste. Find out more and start eating healthy every day, today.
