Staff Frontend Engineer, Design System

CookUnity; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join CookUnity as a Staff Frontend Software Engineer, where you will define and build the future of our frontend architecture. Collaborate with design teams to establish a top-notch design system, support rapid growth, and mentor others while ensuring high-quality user experiences as we change how we eat.

Benefits

Health Insurance coverage (Canada Life)

Stock Options Plan

Flexible Paid Time Off

5-year Sabbatical

Paid Family Leave

Compassionate Leave

Monthly CookUnity credits

Wellness perks: fitness subsidies

Personalized Spanish coach

Qualifications

• 5-7 years experience in frontend software engineering.
• Experience with established design systems.
• Strong knowledge of best practices in mobile and web development.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creation and evolution of the CookUnity design system.
• Collaborate to rebuild frontend architecture for rapid growth.
• Write clean, efficient, well-tested code.

Skills

Frontend Software Engineering

Mobile and Web Development Best Practices

Innovation in Technical Teams

Tools

Typescript

ReactJS

NextJS

Tailwind

React Native

Expo

Job description

About CookUnity

Food has lost its soul to modern convenience. And with 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 35 million meals a year from the industry’s 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, you’ve found the right job posting.

About the Team:

The Engineering Foundation team is a newly formed team responsible for ensuring the overall architecture supports the company’s rapid growth and provides an excellent experience for all CookUnity users.

We’re undertaking a large re-architecture of many systems across the engineering stack, and we’ll shape (and build) the future frameworks, technologies, and patterns for the rest of the engineering org to leverage.

The role:

This is a rare opportunity to work at a rapid growth scale-up company and build on an entirely net new system to set the engineering foundation and principles across the org.

As a Staff Frontend Software Engineer on the Engineering Foundation team, you’ll play a critical role in defining the direction for the future of CookUnity’s frontend architecture. You will lead the build-out of the frontend design system that’s critical to our re-architecture project, and will eventually be consumed and leveraged by all front-end teams at the company. You’ll need to partner closely with our design team to build out a best in class design system.

We’re looking for someone who’s excited about the prospect of taking an existing product that’s growing rapidly and helping to rebuild key components of our system. This will help set CookUnity up to scale gracefully for our next years of rapid growth, reduce overall system complexity, and enable product teams to build incredible features faster.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the creation and evolution of the CookUnity design system in close partnership with our Design team.
• Collaborate with other Engineering Foundation team members to rebuild key parts of CookUnity's frontend architecture to support rapid growth, improve resilience, and enable product teams to deliver faster, high-quality user experiences.
• Establish opinionated, high-quality engineering practices for new features and progressively apply them to existing systems across the org.
• Demonstrate strong self-direction and thrive in environments with high ambiguity, making sound decisions even when clear solutions are not readily apparent.
• Write clean, efficient, well-tested code to set a high standard and lead by example as a hands-on engineer.
• Partner across Engineering, Product, and Design teams to develop a flexible, modular design system that will support all CookUnity UIs.
• Write and maintain tooling to validate the effectiveness and adoption of the design system.
• Mentor teams and individuals to inspire innovation and maintain high technical standards throughout the engineering organization.

Minimum Requirements:

• 5-7+ years of experience in frontend software engineering.
• Prior experience working on (or with) established design systems.
• Proven track record of driving innovation within highly technical, distributed teams. You have driven complex projects to completion and are motivated by solving high-impact problems and building for the best user UX.
• Strong knowledge of mobile and web development best practices.
• Demonstrable experience shipping high quality web or mobile apps to production.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience with some or all of: Typescript, ReactJS, NextJS, Tailwind, React Native, Expo.
  • Nice to have: experience / familiarity with universal app technologies (e.g. Solito, Moti, React Native Web)
• Proficiency with leveraging AI Coding tools in day to day development (Cursor, Windsurf, or similar).
• Be opinionated on engineering best practices and help contribute to our strong engineering culture.
• Past experience working in a rapid growth company or an early stage startup environment.
• A passion for food!

Benefits

Health Insurance coverage (Canada Life)

We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1

Flexible Paid Time Off

️5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical

Paid Family leave.

Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises

A generous amount of CookUnity credits to enjoy our amazing meals, added to your account, monthly.

️Wellness perks: fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle

Personalized Spanish coach

Awesome opportunity to join a company that is looking to change how we eat and how chefs work!

If you’re interested in this role, please submit your application and if we think you might be a fit, we'll 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.