Instacart

Sr Software Engineer II - Ads Manager (Front End)

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17 hours ago
Remote, CanadaSenior

Base Salary

$196k - $207k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the frontend technical roadmap and architecture for Ads Manager web applications.
  • Design, build, and maintain React interfaces for campaign creation, management, reporting, and optimization.
  • Define shared components, state management, and reusable frontend abstractions.
  • Partner with backend teams on API and data contracts.
  • Lead cross-team frontend standards, modernization, technical-debt reduction, and multi-quarter initiatives.
  • Improve observability, performance, accessibility, reliability, developer productivity, and on-call readiness.
  • Embed security-by-design and lead responses to significant security or reliability issues affecting the Ads Manager UI.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, Backend, and Data Science teams.
  • Mentor and sponsor engineers up to L5 and improve onboarding and team practices.
  • Help establish best practices for AI-assisted development tools.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building modern web applications with substantial ownership of complex user-facing products.
  • Deep expertise in Node.js and React, including hooks, state management, and performance tuning.
  • Strong frontend architecture experience with modularization, shared components, routing, data fetching, and error handling.
  • Experience designing and integrating with REST and/or GraphQL APIs in collaboration with backend teams.
  • Experience leading large, ambiguous, multi-stakeholder projects from design through rollout and operations.
  • Demonstrated impact on productivity and code health through abstractions, tooling, testing, and CI improvements.
  • Experience with web application monitoring and observability, such as Datadog or similar tools.
  • Comfort using AI-assisted developer tools and scaling their use across a team.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Preferred: experience with large-scale data-heavy UIs, GraphQL at scale, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, frontend performance and reliability, major migrations, Figma, and mentoring L3–L5 engineers.

Benefits

  • Remote Flex First work arrangement with flexibility to work from home, an office, or another preferred location, plus regular in-person events.
  • Hiring is currently limited to Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
  • Eligible for a new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
  • Competitive compensation and benefits based on work location.

Tech Stack

CypressDatadogGraphQLNode.jsReactSelenium

Categories

Instacart

About Instacart

10,000+ employees

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.

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