Senior Solutions Architect

🕒 June 16

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Instacart

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 $232M Venture Round on 2021-11

Food & Beverage • Logistics • eCommerce

Instacart is a company that offers a flexible approach to work while transforming the grocery industry. It provides an essential service by delivering groceries and household goods to customers' doors in as little as 30 minutes. Instacart offers safe and flexible earning opportunities to personal shoppers and tackles challenges such as rerouting deliveries during snowstorms and connecting customers with coupons and deals. It aims to be the operating system for the grocery industry, thus helping customers save time for other activities. Instacart emphasizes diversity, equity, and belonging in its work culture.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end solution architecture from discovery through launch, including requirements, systems design, integration strategy, and production readiness for enterprise retail partners. • Design and document robust integration patterns across RESTful APIs, webhooks, and middleware, ensuring performance, reliability, security, and observability. • Serve as the primary technical liaison to partner engineering teams while driving alignment with Instacart Product, Engineering, Design, Security, and Technical Program Management. • Create high-quality technical artifacts—including sequence diagrams, data models, interface contracts, and runbooks—and lead design reviews to achieve stakeholder sign-off. • Prototype and script proofs of concept, data validations, and tooling using SQL and a scripting language to accelerate delivery and de-risk integrations. • Develop reusable templates, accelerators, and documentation that scale Connected Stores implementations across multiple enterprise partners. • Troubleshoot complex integration issues across systems, perform root cause analyses, and implement preventative guardrails that improve operational excellence. • Provide thought leadership on retail technology domains such as POS, inventory, pricing/promo, identity/loyalty, payments, and in-store physical AI devices.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field; or equivalent practical experience. • 7+ years of experience as a solutions architect or software engineer delivering complex system integrations for enterprise customers. • 4+ years designing and implementing RESTful APIs and event-driven integrations at scale, including authentication/authorization and error handling strategies. • Proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, JavaScript, or Bash) for automation, data validation, and debugging. • Hands-on experience with integration technologies such as API gateways, webhooks, message queues/streaming, and middleware. • Proven track record taking solutions from design through launch, including test planning, cutover, and post-launch support in production environments. • Demonstrated ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences and lead cross-functional discovery/design sessions with external clients. • Experience partnering with Technical Program/Project Managers to build delivery plans, milestones, and risk mitigation strategies.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Flexible work arrangements • Bonuses • Stock options • Professional development opportunities • Paid time off