The opportunity
Instacart’s Growth Lifecycle Incentives team builds coupon experiences, one of the company’s core revenue drivers. We own the end-to-end experience for coupon storing, serving, ranking, and merchandising in app, web and CRM, partnering closely with Product, Data Science and…
What you'll do
Design, build, and own backend services, APIs, and data integrations that power coupon merchandising.
Implement and iterate on experiments end-to-end—partnering with Product and: Data Science to ideate, launch, measure, and refine A/B tests that move key metrics.
Identify and execute codebase and product optimizations that improve: reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across distributed systems.
Collaborate cross-functionally to define roadmaps, success metrics, and: guardrails; communicate tradeoffs clearly in a fast-paced, experiment-driven environment.
Uphold high engineering standards through code reviews, testing,: documentation, and thoughtful architecture decisions that balance speed with quality.
Partner with frontend and mobile engineers to deliver cohesive, high-quality: experiences across web, iOS, and Android.
What they're looking for
- Experience with experimentation platforms and A/B testing frameworks,: including experiment design, instrumentation, and analysis.
- Frontend or mobile development experience (e.g., React/TypeScript, React: Native, Swift, or Kotlin) and comfort collaborating across the stack.
- Exposure to event-driven architectures and analytics tooling (e.g., Kafka or: Pub/Sub, feature flag systems, Looker, Amplitude, or similar).
- Experience with performance optimization and observability at scale (e.g.,: profiling, caching strategies, SLOs, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
- Comfort thriving in a fast-paced, experimentation-heavy environment with: ambiguity, rapid iteration, and frequent learning cycles.
- Exposure to AI-assisted development and agentic coding workflows.
- Domain experience in coupon or growth systems.
