Staff Full Stack Engineer, Horizons
About the role
About the Team:
As a fundamental pillar of the platform, Horizon enables different business models within CookUnity, ensuring that users can seamlessly subscribe to plans, manage their preferences, and successfully place their orders.
The team is responsible for two key areas:
- Enabling Business Models and Subscriptions: Horizon ensures that diverse user segments have access to tailored plans and subscription models, optimizing their experience within the platform. This involves continuous iteration and experimentation to provide the best possible journey for each type of user.
- Order Management and Integrity: Horizon acts as the source of truth for user orders, ensuring their accuracy and reliability. The team handles critical processes such as order creation, autopilot selection, and delivery eligibility based on user addresses, guaranteeing a seamless experience from selection to fulfillment.
By combining a strong user experience focus with backend robustness, Horizon plays a vital role in shaping the way users interact with CookUnity and ensuring operational stability across the platform.
The Role:
As a Staff Full Stack Engineer on the Horizons Squad, you will play a crucial role in leading technical initiatives, driving architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers as we scale our user experiences. You’ll work on building and optimizing backend services and APIs that power CookUnity’s 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.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced engineer who thrives on complexity and enjoys designing scalable, resilient, and high-performing backend systems. You will collaborate closely with engineering leadership, product managers, and cross-functional teams—including Data teams—to build and improve mission-critical infrastructure that enables personalized user experiences across our platform.
We’re looking for someone who can bring strong system design expertise, lead projects from concept to deployment, and set a high technical bar for the team while driving forward best practices in software engineering.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable backend services that power CookUnity’s personalization systems
- Define and drive architectural improvements that enhance system reliability, scalability, and maintainability
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product and Data teams to provide our users tailor-made content that adjust to their ne