The opportunity
The Marketing Enablement & Technology (MET) team sits within Instacart's Marketing organization, building the systems, APIs, and data pipelines powering Instacart's Paid Marketing channels—one of our most substantial growth levers. Operating at the intersection of Marketing,…
What you'll do
Drive the team's technical roadmap and architectural decisions, balancing: short and long-term investments to build reusable, scalable systems that serve current and future marketing needs.
Enhance developer productivity by evolving processes, tools, and abstractions: that improve team efficiency, system extensibility, and code quality across the codebase.
Lead team-wide initiatives and propose strategic work on behalf of: engineering management, partnering directly with senior Product and Marketing leaders on product design and technical decisions.
Champion advanced observability, resilience (including chaos engineering and: disaster recovery), cost optimization, and security-by-design principles across all team projects.
Mentor engineers up to L5, act as a force multiplier through well-documented: processes, and proactively resolve conflicts that block execution across teams.
–12 years of software engineering experience with demonstrated expertise: leading technical roadmaps and making architectural decisions that impact team-level systems.
What they're looking for
- Experience defining and establishing infrastructure, tooling, and best: practices for AI-assisted development across engineering teams.
- Deep expertise in ad tech platforms and marketing technology ecosystems,: recognized as a domain expert within the organization.
- Track record of leading large-scale legacy system modernization efforts and: strategically managing technical debt at team level.
- Experience establishing coding standards, architectural patterns, and: technical review processes that elevate team quality.
- Demonstrated ability to proactively contribute during crises outside core: technical expertise, serving as technical consultant for sub-pillar level initiatives.
- Experience collaborating with external teams on cross-pillar partnerships and: acting as point of contact for technical collaboration.
