The opportunity
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community.
What you'll do
Lead complete projects independently across backend services, APIs, and data: pipelines, defining experimentation, development, and rollout strategies across multiple systems with minimal guidance.
Architect scalable, robust solutions for performance, reliability, and cost: efficiency, applying deep technical knowledge to design systems that handle high-throughput marketing operations.
Drive technical improvements by identifying and solving deeper underlying: problems, designing appropriate abstractions to simplify complexity and promote reusability across the codebase.
Partner directly with Marketing and Product stakeholders to influence: features and requirements, bringing strong technical perspective while making well-reasoned trade-offs between complexity, business value, and delivery timelines.
Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and: onboarding support, while contributing to team productivity through process improvements and automation.
–8 years of software engineering experience with expert-level proficiency in: Python for building scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines.
What they're looking for
- Proven track record of leading complete projects end-to-end, including: architecture design, implementation, experimentation, and production rollout.
- Deep expertise with data integration technologies (Snowflake, SQL, ETL: processes) and workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, DBT).
- Demonstrated ability to design for performance, scalability, and robustness,: with experience implementing comprehensive observability solutions (logging, metrics, tracing).
- Strong product thinking with ability to research problems deeply, influence: product direction, and make strategic trade-offs balancing technical and business considerations.
