Key skills
GraphQLJavaScriptKotlinMicroservicesMySQLNode.jsPostgresReactSQLTypeScriptAIPostgreSQLRESTfulCachingPerformance OptimizationCommunication
About this role
Role Overview
- 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
Requirements
- +3 years of experience with:
- Backend development, with on 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.
Tech Stack
- GraphQL
- JavaScript
- Kotlin
- Microservices
- MySQL
- Node.js
- Postgres
- React
- SQL
- TypeScript
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