9 hours ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead and deliver projects from design through launch to improve advertiser activation, platform health, and ad revenue growth.
- Design, build, and operate scalable, well-tested backend services and APIs for campaign management and reporting.
- Work across the stack to integrate backend systems with frontend applications.
- Partner with product managers and engineers to translate ambiguous requirements into scoped plans.
- Define architectural patterns, write and review system design documents, and improve observability and system reliability.
- Mentor junior engineers and raise code quality through code reviews.
- Contribute to recruiting and improve team processes.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong experience building and operating backend services and APIs using a modern web framework such as Ruby on Rails or Go.
- Strong understanding of relational databases and SQL, including data modeling and query performance.
- Experience designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems.
- Ability to work across the stack and integrate with frontend applications.
- Strong analytical, debugging, communication, collaboration, ownership, and independent execution skills.
- Preferred: experience in digital advertising or self-serve platforms.
- Preferred: experience designing and versioning public or partner-facing REST or GraphQL APIs.
- Preferred: experience with asynchronous processing and messaging systems such as Kafka or Sidekiq.
- Preferred: familiarity with AWS, Terraform, and Datadog or similar tooling.
- Preferred: experience with React or TypeScript and integrating ML or AI capabilities into products.
Benefits
- Flex First remote work arrangement, with employees able to work from home, an office, or another preferred location; hiring is currently limited to Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
- The role is eligible for a new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
- Competitive compensation and benefits are provided based on work location.
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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.