Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join CookUnity's Menu Team as a Backend Engineer and play a key role in building and optimizing backend services and APIs that power the company's menu experience. You will work on the Server-Driven UI (SDUI) service within the Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architecture, developing and maintaining backend services and databases. Collaborate with product managers, mobile/web engineers, and designers to create an engaging menu experience. This is a great opportunity for a semi-senior engineer to work on challenging technical problems and contribute to customer-facing products. The role involves developing scalable backend services and APIs, implementing and optimizing the BFF layer, collaborating with other teams on new features, optimizing database queries, improving monitoring and logging, and participating in code reviews. CookUnity offers remote work, paid time off, healthcare stipends, Argentinean holidays, compassionate leave, paid family leave, English coaching, and customizable benefits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend development, with expertise in Kotlin
• Experience in backend development, with Node.js and TypeScript
• 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
• Advanced English communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud infrastructure
• Familiarity with observability tools like DataDog and logging frameworks
• Understanding of GraphQL APIs and schema design best practices

Benefits

• Get paid in USD
• Work remotely: design the life that you want
• Enjoy 15 business days of vacation each year from the start date
• Healthcare Benefit: Monthly stipend to use in your preferred healthcare provider
• 16 fully paid Argentinean holidays
• Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises
• Paid family leave
• Personalized English coach
• 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
• 5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical