Staff Software Engineer

🕒 October 28, 2025

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $216k - $279k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Instacart

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 $232M Venture Round on 2021-11

Food & Beverage • Logistics • eCommerce

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

• Modernize FoodStorm’s on-demand ordering, catering, and prepared food platform • Rearchitect the platform using a service-oriented architecture approach • Build efficient, scalable, and maintainable solutions • Implement software enabling integration between FoodStorm and Instacart systems • Conduct hands-on coding, technical problem-solving, and system optimization • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers on technical strategy and implementation • Partner with the Australia-based engineering team during overlapping work hours • Provide technical mentorship to peers • Identify and implement best practices to improve team efficiency and system performance

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable systems and distributed architectures • Proficiency in a modern programming language such as Python, Java, C#, or similar • Strong hands-on experience with backend development and system integration • Proven ability to solve complex technical problems in a collaborative environment • Excellent communication and teamwork skills, including experience working across time zones • Strong ownership and accountability for delivering high-quality results • Familiarity with .NET Core, SOA patterns, and API integrations is a plus • Experience with system modernization or large-scale technical migrations • Experience with front-end web development • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience is preferred • Knowledge of grocery retail, catering, or enterprise platform technologies • Ability to collaborate with the Australia-based engineering team during approximately two overlapping hours daily

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible choice of work location: home, office, or coffee shop • Regular in-person events • New hire equity grant • Annual refresh equity grants • Market-competitive compensation and benefits