Staff Software Engineer, Shopper Activation & Engagement

🕒 April 21

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Instacart

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🛍️ eCommerce

🚗 Transport

🛒 Retail

💰 $232M Venture Round on 2021-11

eCommerce • Transport • Retail

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

• Define and drive the end-to-end technical strategy and architecture for the activation domain • Lead product strategy in partnership with Product and Design • Own delivery of business-critical compliance and vendor initiatives • Run large, cross-functional programs across multiple engineering and business teams • Mentor and develop engineers through design reviews • Continuously improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of services

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems • 3+ years owning end-to-end architecture and technical strategy for a domain or product area • Proven track record leading cross-functional initiatives across 3+ teams • Proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Go, Java, Python) • Hands-on experience building AI tooling or agentic automation • Experience designing compliant systems involving identity, eligibility, certifications, or similarly sensitive workflows • Demonstrated mentorship and team development experience

🏖️ Benefits

• health insurance • retirement plans • paid time off • flexible work arrangements • professional development • bonuses • stock options • equipment allowances • wellness programs