7 hours ago
Remote, CanadaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build and ship publisher-facing features across Storefront, Storefront Pro, and API partners.
- Extend the Connect / Carrot Ads API with robust event handling, dead-letter recovery, integration tests, and self-serve documentation.
- Build retailer controls for relevance, quality scores, reserve pricing, ad load, and performance tuning.
- Improve reporting, attribution, catalog and product-ID mapping, reconciliation, and automated partner-data health checks.
- Improve partner SLAs, observability, incident frequency, recovery time, and partner-health monitoring.
- Debug partner-facing serving and reporting issues across shared serving, measurement, and quality systems.
- Collaborate with Product, Enterprise Solutions, Serving, Measurement, Ads Quality, and Ads Manager teams.
- Use AI-assisted developer tools while maintaining quality and security standards.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience building and operating production backend services.
- Strong API design and distributed-systems fundamentals with fluency in a backend language such as Go, Ruby, or Python.
- Demonstrated experience shipping features end to end with testing, observability, and operational ownership.
- Experience debugging across service boundaries and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: experience in ad tech, retail media, publisher- or partner-facing platforms, event streaming, reliability patterns, AWS or GCP, data reconciliation, attribution, catalog and entity mapping, or partner-facing APIs.
Benefits
- Flex First remote work arrangement with flexibility to work from home, an office, or another preferred location, with regular in-person events.
- Currently hiring in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
- Eligible for a new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
- Market-competitive compensation and benefits 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.