Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Enablement – Technology

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Instacart

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 5–8 years of software engineering experience with expert-level proficiency in Python for building scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines. • 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. • Excellent communication skills with proven ability to mentor engineers, drive cross-team alignment, and translate technical concepts for diverse stakeholders. • Experience architecting and implementing automation frameworks and reusable abstractions that improve team productivity and system extensibility. • Advanced knowledge of ad platform APIs (Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Snapchat Ads) and conversion tracking mechanisms at scale. • Deep understanding of digital marketing operations and performance marketing KPIs (ROAS, LTV, CAC, CPA) with ability to identify technical opportunities that drive business impact. • Experience with cloud cost optimization, chaos engineering, and disaster recovery planning. • Track record of managing technical debt strategically and leading legacy system modernization efforts. • Experience with security-by-design principles and leading incident response for production systems. • Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools for significant productivity improvements and contribute to AI-assisted development infrastructure.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements • New hire equity grant • Annual refresh grants