About the company
Instacart is transforming the grocery industry, offering an essential service that customers rely on for groceries and household goods, while providing flexible earnings opportunities for Personal Shoppers. The company operates as a Flex First team, allowing employees to choose where they work.
Responsibilities
- Drive the team's technical roadmap and architectural decisions, balancing short and long-term investments to build reusable, scalable systems.
- Enhance developer productivity by evolving processes, tools, and abstractions that improve team efficiency, system extensibility, and code quality.
- Lead team-wide initiatives and propose strategic work on behalf of engineering management, partnering with senior Product and Marketing leaders.
- Champion advanced observability, resilience (including chaos engineering and disaster recovery), cost optimization, and security-by-design principles.
- Mentor engineers up to L5, act as a force multiplier through well-documented processes, and resolve conflicts across teams.
Requirements
- 8–12 years of software engineering experience with demonstrated expertise leading technical roadmaps and making architectural decisions.
- Expert-level proficiency in Python with proven ability to design and implement reusable abstractions, frameworks, and patterns.
- Deep technical knowledge of building scalable, high-throughput systems with comprehensive observability, cost efficiency, and security considerations.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with senior Product and Marketing leaders, influencing product roadmap.
- Proven track record of enhancing team productivity through process improvements, tooling development, and mentorship.
- Excellent communication and influence skills with ability to drive execution of cross-team initiatives.
Conditions
- Remote work within the United States.
- Base pay ranges: CA, NY, CT, NJ: $230,000 – $242,500; WA: $220,000 – $232,000; OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI: $211,000 – $222,500; All other states: $192,000 – $202,500 USD per year.
- Eligible for new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
- Flex First remote work policy.