Staff Software Engineer

July 14

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Instacart

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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.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🛍️ eCommerce

🚗 Transport

🛒 Retail

💰 $232M Venture Round on 2021-11

📋 Description

• As a Senior Software Engineer on the FoodStorm team, you will play a pivotal role in modernizing FoodStorm’s on demand ordering, catering, and prepared food platform. • You’ll contribute to rearchitecting the system using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, with a focus on building efficient, scalable, and maintainable solutions. • With hands-on coding, deep problem-solving, and close collaboration with cross-functional teams—including an international engineering team in Australia—you’ll help improve the platform’s performance, reliability, and integration with Instacart systems. • This role requires strong ownership of deliverables, as well as a proactive approach to technical challenges.

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable systems and distributed architectures. • Proficiency in a modern programming language such as Python, Java, C#, or similar. • Strong hands-on experience with backend development and system integration. • Proven ability to solve complex technical problems in a collaborative environment. • Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with experience working across time zones (including ~2-hour overlap with Australia). • Strong sense of ownership and accountability for delivering high-quality results. • Familiarity with .NET Core, SOA patterns, and API integrations is a plus. • Experience working on system modernization or large-scale technical migrations (e.g., monolithic to SOA). • Experience with front-end web development. • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. • Knowledge of grocery retail, catering, or enterprise platform technologies. • A commitment to developing and deploying reliable, performant tools that deliver excellent partner and customer experiences.

🏖️ Benefits

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. • This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. • Please read more about our benefits offerings here.