Staff Software Engineer, Home & Cross-Retailer Search

🕒 May 7

🏄 California, Colorado, +17 more states – Remote

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💵 $221k - $279k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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

• Define and drive the multi-year technical vision for Home and Cross-Retailer Search infrastructure, spanning retrieval, ranking, indexing, and personalization at scale. • Own the architecture of Instacart's cross-retailer search platform, ensuring correctness, freshness, and low latency as catalog and query volume grows. • Own Home feed ranking and content strategy, retailer selection, and personalized recommendations driven by real-time and batch ML signals. • Partner with ML Platform and Applied Science to productionize ranking models and improve experimentation infrastructure - A/B testing, interleaving, and offline eval • Accelerate developer velocity across the sub-pillar: reduce time-to-production, build reusable components, and make it easy for product teams to experiment with minimal platform friction. • Set the technical bar through design reviews, reliability standards, latency budgets, and observability practices. • Lead major cross-org initiatives end-to-end, from scoping through rollout and post-launch ownership. • Represent the engineering perspective in product and business planning, translating ambiguous problems into well-scoped technical strategies with clear tradeoffs. • Mentor and grow engineers across Home and XRS teams.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of leading large-scale distributed systems in production • Demonstrated experience as a technical lead or architect on cross-team, multi-quarter initiatives driving alignment, making hard tradeoffs, and delivering results • Deep expertise in backend systems: high-throughput APIs, data pipelines, caching strategies, and storage systems. • Experience building or scaling search, recommendations, or feed-ranking systems at significant traffic volume • Strong command of system design principles: reliability, fault tolerance, observability, graceful degradation • Proficiency in one or more of: Ruby, Go, Python, Java, or similar backend languages; comfort across the stack to debug and contribute where needed • Strong communication skills - able to write crisp technical documents and drive alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders • BS/MS in Computer Science, a related field.

🏖️ Benefits

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits • Eligible for a new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.