Cookpad is a tech company building a community platform that enables people to share recipe ideas and cooking tips. It’s a global platform used by on average around 100 million people every month across the world. Over 6 million recipes have been created by people in more than 70 countries. How we got started.
Cookpad is dedicated to shaping the future of home cooking and food as a pillar for a sustainable future. Our mission is to make everyday cooking fun. We believe we can build a better world through encouraging even more people to cook. Everyday, home cooking has a profound impact on ourselves and the world around us: it makes us healthier and connects us with our friends and family. Through solving the problems related to everyday cooking, we help people live happier and healthier lives in an environment that is more sustainable. That’s how we want to impact the world.
Take a look at our website to learn more and our Medium blog to see what it is like to work at Cookpad. You can also find our engineering blog at sourcediving.com to read about some of the interesting engineering challenges we work on.
Cookpad is one of Japan's best known tech companies, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and was already highly successful before launching globally in 2013. With strong backing we have spent the last few years building the global platform and we are now in our commercialisation phase of the business.
As a Cookpad Engineer, you will join a very high performing global team to help deliver our product to end users throughout the world.
Requirements
What will your typical week look like?
As a Senior Ruby Developer on a Product Team you might work on any of the following during a typical week:
Is this role for you?
This role will be based on site in Bristol (we provide relocation and visa sponsorship). We are currently working in a hybrid model, at the moment this entails being in the office one day per week of your choosing if you are Bristol based.
You will be an advocate of Ruby on Rails, love writing tests, and have thorough knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL. You should also be at home refactoring and debugging large applications with a distributed team, and with tens of millions of users per month, you will also be adept at working at scale and with performance always in mind.
The above description of the role is not finite, please apply even if you don’t think you fit all the requirements. We are looking for people who show promise, are eager to learn and connect with our mission.
Benefits
Why join Cookpad?
People join Cookpad to be part of something bigger - to make a difference.
Valuing our team means we offer competitive salaries and benefits you’d expect from a company wanting great people, including generous employer pension contributions and cycle to work schemes. We offer peace of mind with group in