6 hours ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$168k - $178k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end projects across backend services, APIs, and data pipelines, including experimentation, development, and rollout strategies.
- Architect scalable and robust systems for high-throughput marketing operations with strong performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Design reusable abstractions, automation frameworks, and technical improvements that simplify complexity and improve extensibility.
- Partner with Marketing, Product, and Operations stakeholders to shape requirements, product direction, and technical strategy.
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and onboarding, while improving team productivity through automation.
- Support cloud cost optimization, chaos engineering, disaster recovery planning, technical debt management, legacy modernization, security-by-design, and production incident response.
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 complete projects from architecture and implementation through experimentation and production rollout.
- Deep experience with Snowflake, SQL, ETL processes, Airflow, and dbt.
- Experience designing performant, scalable, robust systems and implementing comprehensive observability solutions.
- Strong product thinking, problem-research skills, and ability to balance technical complexity, business value, and delivery timelines.
- Excellent communication, mentoring, and cross-team alignment skills.
- Experience with automation frameworks, reusable abstractions, ad platform APIs such as Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and Snapchat Ads, and conversion tracking at scale.
- Understanding of digital marketing operations and performance marketing KPIs including ROAS, LTV, CAC, and CPA.
- Experience with security-by-design, incident response, cloud cost optimization, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, technical debt, and legacy system modernization.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI tools to improve productivity and contribute to AI-assisted development infrastructure.
Benefits
- Flex First remote work arrangement allowing employees to work from home, an office, or another preferred location, with regular in-person events.
- Role is 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, experience, and skills.
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.