The opportunity
Instacart is transforming the grocery industry by helping people access the food they love while enabling retailers, brands, and shoppers to succeed. The Pick & Deliver organization builds the technology that powers critical in-store and delivery operations across the Instacart marketplace.
What you'll do
Lead the technical direction and execution of Android experiences that: support retailers and shoppers across all phases of picking an order.
Design, build, test, and maintain high-quality Android applications using: modern technologies including Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and RxJava.
Partner with Product, Design, Backend Engineering, iOS Engineering,: retailers, and external vendors to define solutions for complex operational and customer needs.
Own projects from technical discovery through delivery, balancing immediate: retailer priorities with long-term platform health, scalability, and maintainability.
Improve application performance, reliability, observability, and developer: experience through profiling, instrumentation, architectural improvements, and thoughtful technical debt reduction.
Provide technical leadership across the Pick & Deliver organization by: facilitating design discussions, mentoring engineers, establishing engineering best practices, and helping teams make clear, durable decisions.
What they're looking for
- Experience building mobile products for retail, logistics, fulfillment,: delivery, workforce, or other operational environments.
- Experience supporting multiple product teams, retailers, markets, or: high-priority initiatives at the same time.
- Experience with Android performance profiling, application startup: optimization, crash reduction, instrumentation, or large-scale observability.
- Experience contributing to mobile platform strategy, shared components,: developer tooling, or migration to modern Android technologies.
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams without direct authority.
- Experience working with external partners, vendors, or enterprise customers: to understand operational needs and deliver reliable solutions.
