Food has lost its soul to modern convenience. 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. And crafted with the passion that nourishes body and soul. If that mission has you hungry in more ways than one, you’ve found the right job posting.

Our Data

Team is a highly dynamic and innovative group that excels in solving complex business challenges and propelling the growth of an enterprise through analytical expertise. This is a rare chance to work at a rapid growth scale‑up company and build on an entirely new system to set the engineering foundation and principles across the org. You will partner closely with the engineering team to translate data needs into scalable, production‑ready solutions.

You will design & build net new data pipelines and systems that form the future base of our B2C data engineering stack, and set in place best practices and patterns for the entire CookUnity data engineering org to adopt. We’re looking for someone 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, enable greater product experimentation, and enable product teams to build incredible features faster.

Design and build net new resilient batch and real‑time data pipelines that power critical products and drive rapid business growth. Design and build data pipelines facilitating the migration from existing disparate data models and data sources, into new data models and databases in production. Champion data reliability and performance by implementing proactive monitoring and quality‑first engineering practices.

Optimize data models to support fast, efficient decision‑making across high‑impact product and business use cases. Partner closely with product, engineering, and data science teams to quickly translate evolving business needs into scalable,



production‑ready data solutions. Shape the future of data engineering at scale, helping define the long‑term roadmap and setting best practices as we grow.

Coach and level up teammates, fostering a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement. 7+ years of experience in backend software engineering. Proficient in Java, Scala, or Python, with deep expertise in data processing tech and in writing complex SQL queries. 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. Proven track record in designing, building, and operating robust distributed data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Spark, Flink, Kafka), and handling large data sets. Demonstrable experience of building, productionalizing, and optimizing real‑time and batch data pipelines.

Experience designing data architectures to power a variety of use cases, including enabling experimentation 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!

Health

Insurance coverage (Canada Life) Flexible Paid Time Off Paid Family leave. A generous amount of CookUnity credits to enjoy our amazing meals, added to your account, monthly. AI‑forward workplace: enterprise access to ChatGPT and Claude to help you work smarter and grow faster.

Personalized

Spanish coach All final pay rates will be determined by candidates experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data. 190,000 — $210,000 CAD 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. #

📌 Telecommute Staff Data Architect (Toronto)
🏢 Cookunity
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