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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 a team of engineers across backend, frontend, and cloud infrastructure to deliver scalable and secure software • Collaborate on, and drive the execution of a clear technical and product vision aligned with FoodStorm and Instacart’s platform strategy • Serve as a technical authority in full‑stack engineering, overseeing the lifecycle of backend services, APIs, integrations, and UI components • Guide the team through complex architectural decisions and implementation of secure, reliable, cloud‑native systems • Partner with broader Instacart teams to support retailer integrations and cross‑platform technical initiatives • Oversee production systems, ensuring enterprise‑grade reliability, performance, and incident response • Drive process improvements that increase engineering efficiency, predictability, and quality • Support hiring, onboarding, growth, and mentorship for engineers • Promote best practices in coding, testing, documentation, observability, CI/CD, and security • Apply pragmatic decision‑making, balancing business priorities with secure and scalable solutions

🎯 Requirements

• Proven track record as a hands‑on technical leader or engineering manager • 2+ years experience managing teams of 6+ engineers • 8+ years experience in web application engineering • Highly proficient in React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript • Highly proficient in Microsoft .NET and C# • Highly proficient in Microsoft SQL Server or SQL Azure (T‑SQL, schema design, stored procedures) • Strong experience delivering secure software aligned to OWASP standards • Experience with Azure services, AKS, and cloud‑native architectures • Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure‑as‑code practices • Ability to craft and execute engineering roadmaps aligned to product goals • Demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, and develop engineering talent • Strong cross‑functional collaboration experience with Product, Professional Services, or customer‑facing teams • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills • Structured, proactive communication and strong stakeholder management • Experience with Go, Rust, or Ruby frameworks (Preferred) • Experience building enterprise‑grade or retailer‑facing systems (Preferred) • Experience working directly with customers or partners in a technical capacity (Preferred) • Experience enabling developer productivity and velocity, including AI‑supported development (Preferred) • Experience driving 0‑1 technical or product innovation (Preferred) • A leadership style grounded in trust, clarity, and empowerment (Preferred) • Pragmatism and business awareness in technical decision‑making (Preferred) • Strong ability to navigate both a startup‑like environment and Instacart‑scale operations (Preferred) • A passion for building great teams and great software (Preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements • Professional development