2 months ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead complete projects across backend services, APIs, and data pipelines, including experimentation, development, and rollout strategies
- Architect scalable and cost-efficient systems supporting high-throughput marketing operations
- Identify underlying technical problems and create reusable abstractions that simplify system complexity
- Partner with Marketing and Product stakeholders to define requirements and make technical and business trade-offs
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and onboarding
- Improve team productivity through process improvements and automation
Requirements
- 5–8 years of software engineering experience with expert-level Python proficiency for scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines
- Proven ability to lead projects end to end, including architecture, implementation, experimentation, and production rollout
- Deep expertise with Snowflake, SQL, ETL processes, Airflow, and DBT
- Experience designing performant, scalable, robust systems with comprehensive logging, metrics, and tracing
- Strong product thinking and ability to research problems, influence product direction, and balance technical and business trade-offs
- Strong communication, mentoring, and cross-team alignment skills
- Preferred experience with automation frameworks, reusable abstractions, and team productivity improvements
- Preferred experience with Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Snapchat Ads, and large-scale conversion tracking
- Preferred understanding of digital marketing operations and performance marketing KPIs including ROAS, LTV, CAC, and CPA
- Preferred experience with cloud cost optimization, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, strategic technical debt management, legacy modernization, security-by-design, and production incident response
- Ability to leverage AI tools for productivity improvements and contribute to AI-assisted development infrastructure
Benefits
- Flex First remote work arrangement, with employees able to work from home, an office, or another preferred location
- Remote hiring currently available in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia
- Eligible for a new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants
- Base pay range of $168,000–$177,500 CAD
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.