2 months ago
Remote, CanadaSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Drive the Paid MarTech team’s technical roadmap and architectural decisions for reusable, scalable systems.
- Improve developer productivity through processes, tools, abstractions, and code-quality practices.
- Lead team-wide and cross-team initiatives while partnering with senior Product and Marketing leaders on strategic and technical decisions.
- Champion observability, resilience, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and security-by-design.
- Mentor engineers up to L5, document processes, and resolve cross-team execution blockers.
- Establish infrastructure, tooling, coding standards, architectural patterns, and technical review processes where needed.
Requirements
- Require 8–12 years of software engineering experience with technical roadmap and team-level architecture leadership.
- Require expert-level Python proficiency and experience designing reusable abstractions, frameworks, and patterns adopted across projects.
- Require deep knowledge of scalable, high-throughput systems, observability, cost efficiency, and security.
- Require experience influencing product roadmaps through strategic technical opportunities and partnering with senior Product and Marketing leaders.
- Require a track record of process improvement, tooling development, mentorship of senior engineers, and cross-functional execution.
- Preferred qualifications include AI-assisted development infrastructure, ad tech and marketing technology expertise, legacy modernization, technical debt management, coding standards, architectural patterns, technical reviews, crisis consulting, and external cross-pillar collaboration.
Benefits
- Flex First remote work arrangement allowing employees to work from home, an office, or another preferred location, with regular in-person events.
- Hiring is currently limited to candidates in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
- Eligible for a new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
- Benefits offerings are provided according to Instacart’s applicable plans and policies.
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.