Staff Software Engineer, Catalog

November 5

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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

• Lead multi‑team initiatives that improve Catalog quality, reliability, and coverage for customers, retailers, brands, and shoppers, with measurable impact on core marketplace outcomes. • Accelerate the adoption of AI across platform, product, and processes—designing systems that turn probabilistic signals into reliable, audited outcomes. • Architect, build, and operate highly scalable, resilient services that support high‑volume data ingestion, product identity, enrichment, and storefront correctness. • Guide teams through execution: clarify scope, de‑risk designs, establish quality bars, and drive delivery while improving standards, observability, and operational excellence. • Champion modern technologies and methodologies that increase flexibility and robustness; influence roadmaps and align stakeholders around a concise technical strategy. • Mentor engineers through design reviews, pair‑programming, and coaching, raising the bar on code quality, documentation, testing, and experimentation practices.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. • 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable platform or backend systems in production. • Experience leading the design, implementation, and deployment of high‑scale, cross‑functional systems end to end. • Deep knowledge of systems architecture and service‑oriented solutions (e.g., microservices, data pipelines, event‑driven architectures). • Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership across teams. • Excellent technical communication skills with a track record of partnering effectively with engineering and cross‑functional stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation • Eligible for new hire equity grant • Annual refresh grants