Software Engineer II – Ads

🔥 16 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $145k - $153k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Instacart

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• Build and ship publisher-facing features across Storefront, Storefront Pro, and API partners • Extend the Connect / Carrot Ads API with clear contracts, event handling, dead-letter recovery, integration tests, and self-serve documentation • Build retailer controls for relevance, quality scores, reserve pricing, and ad-load management • Strengthen reporting and data integrity through attribution, catalog and product-ID mapping, reconciliation, and automated health checks • Improve reliability by defining and meeting partner SLAs, enhancing observability, reducing incidents and recovery time, and contributing to partner-health monitoring • Debug partner-facing serving and reporting issues across shared serving, measurement, and quality systems • Collaborate with Product, Enterprise Solutions, Serving, Measurement, Ads Quality, and Ads Manager teams • Use AI-assisted developer tools while maintaining quality and security • Own shipped work through production and on-call

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building and operating production backend services • Strong API design and distributed-systems fundamentals • Fluency in a backend language such as Go, Ruby, or Python • Track record of shipping features end to end with solid testing, observability, and operational ownership • Experience debugging across service boundaries and collaborating across cross-functional teams • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Preferred: experience in ad tech, retail media, or publisher-/partner-facing platforms • Preferred: familiarity with Kafka, dead-letter queues, and idempotent processing • Preferred: AWS or GCP cloud infrastructure experience • Preferred: data reconciliation, attribution, or catalog and entity mapping experience • Preferred: partner- or customer-facing APIs, documentation, error contracts, and integration testing

🏖️ Benefits

• New hire equity grant • Annual refresh grants • Flexible work location: home, office, or coffee shop • Regular in-person events • Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits