Staff Software Engineer, Shopper Activation – Engagement

🕒 April 21

🏄 California, Connecticut, +2 more states – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🦌 Connecticut – Remote 🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $221k - $279.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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, enabling rapid, safe delivery as the roadmap scales to support millions of shoppers. • Lead product strategy in partnership with Product and Design across onboarding funnel optimization, waitlist management, incentives, and supply levers; set clear OKRs, instrumentation, and experimentation plans. • Own delivery of business-critical compliance and vendor initiatives (e.g., background checks, identity/eligibility workflows), building auditable, privacy-first systems with strong observability and SLAs. • Run large, cross-functional programs across multiple engineering and business teams; translate ambiguous requirements into crisp technical plans, manage risk and dependencies, and unblock execution. • Mentor and develop engineers through design reviews, high-quality code practices, and clear technical standards; raise the technical bar and cultivate the next generation of technical leaders. • Continuously improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of services; establish and enforce SLOs, drive incident learnings, and champion secure-by-default, AI-augmented development workflows.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, high-traffic services, or mobile backends. • 3+ years owning end-to-end architecture and technical strategy for a domain or product area, from design through production operations. • Proven track record leading cross-functional initiatives across 3+ teams and delivering under hard deadlines in ambiguous problem spaces. • Proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Go, Java, Python) and with modern cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS or GCP) and data stores (e.g., Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis). • Hands-on experience building AI tooling or agentic automation and integrating AI into developer workflows or product features. • Experience designing compliant systems involving identity, eligibility, certifications, or similarly sensitive workflows, with privacy and security best practices. • Demonstrated mentorship and team development experience, including leveling up engineers through design guidance and rigorous code reviews. • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities • New hire equity grant • Annual refresh grants