Senior Engineering Manager, Search

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🏄 California, Connecticut, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $221k - $279.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Instacart

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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

• Own the team's technical strategy, roadmap, and goals across Single and Cross retailer search, query understanding, suggestions, Ads on Search. • Drive top-line growth while holding a strict quality bar. • Champion the use of LLMs in search. • Partner with the platform team to design and ship the next-generation search retrieval architecture, while managing the latency and reliability tradeoffs of a tier-1 surface. • Double the team's experimentation velocity by investing in evaluation, AI-native debugging tooling, and ML foundations. • Partner closely with ML, Product, Data Science, the Home and Discovery Platform teams, the Ads organization, and whitelabel retailer teams to translate ranking changes into business and retailer outcomes. • Hire, develop, and coach engineers, and build an inclusive, high-trust team culture.

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing teams, with minimum 10+ years of total engineering experience • Direct experience building or leading search, recommendations, ranking, or other applied ML systems, as a manager or as a senior individual contributor • Familiarity with modern retrieval techniques, including neural/semantic retrieval, ANN, and LLM-based query understanding or re-ranking • Strong technical depth across machine learning and large-scale distributed/backend systems; able to set direction with and earn the trust of staff-level engineers • A track record of driving complex, cross-functional technical programs from strategy through launch while holding a high bar for quality and reliability • Demonstrated product and business judgment: able to connect modeling and ranking decisions to metrics like conversion and revenue, and to reason through tradeoffs (e.g., relevance vs. latency, organic vs. ads) • Strong communication and stakeholder skills; comfortable bridging technical and non-technical partners.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Professional development • Flexible work arrangements • Stock options • New hire equity grant