2 hours ago
Base Salary
$192k - $243k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own complex, multi-quarter integration workstreams end to end, including problem framing, design, implementation, rollout, and legacy-path deprecation.
- Drive technical direction by producing ERDs, design options, recommendations, trade-off decisions, design reviews, and written technical artifacts.
- Lead vendor and cross-team integrations with appropriate observability, fallback behavior, cost controls, and latency guardrails.
- Build reusable frameworks, templates, patterns, system documentation, and migration runbooks for adoption across engineering teams.
- Contribute hands-on as a senior individual contributor to high-leverage technical work while improving design quality, code quality, observability, and operational rigor.
- Mentor junior engineers, delegate implementation work, and retain overall technical ownership.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of backend software engineering experience and a record of owning complex multi-quarter projects as a senior individual contributor.
- Experience acting as a technical DRI for cross-team workstreams and driving execution through adoption.
- Experience designing and shipping production distributed systems and integrations spanning multiple services, teams, or external partners.
- Strong production proficiency with backend technologies such as Ruby/Rails, Python, Go, or similar, plus relational databases, distributed data systems, and cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP.
- Experience producing durable technical artifacts including ERDs, design documents, runbooks, and reusable engineering patterns.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, high-growth environments and drive clarity across maturing partner roadmaps.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred experience includes commerce platforms, omnichannel retail, OMS, POS, catering systems, connected-store technology, identity and SSO integrations, search or ranking systems, international expansion, vendor integrations, and multi-tenant enterprise platform configuration and isolation.
Benefits
- The role is remote under Instacart’s Flex First work model, with flexibility to work from home, an office, or another preferred location and regular in-person events.
- The position includes competitive location-based compensation, a new-hire equity grant, annual refresh grants, and benefits offerings.
- The role is available across multiple US location-based pay bands.
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About Instacart
Instacart builds a grocery technology platform used by retailers and consumers for online shopping, delivery, and pickup. Its business spans a consumer marketplace, enterprise e-commerce and fulfillment software, and a retail media ads network, generating revenue from fees, subscriptions, software, and advertising. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is publicly traded on Nasdaq and operates across the U.S. and Canada.