About the Company
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart is a Flex First team. There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for designing, maintaining, and optimizing large scale Android and backend software systems
- Developing and implementing high-performance mobile and distributed backend solutions
- Leading the end-to-end development lifecycle for applications by gathering requirements and conducting technical design
- Creating and maintaining robust pipelines to facilitate rapid and reliable software delivery
- Ensuring robust security, data privacy, and compliance with industry standards throughout the software development lifecycle
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and deliver new features
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or related field (or foreign equivalent)
- 5 years of experience in the job offered or related
- 2 years of experience in advanced Android development, including MVVM/MVI architecture and dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger or Hilt
- 2 years of experience in Kotlin, Java, and SQL, including work with asynchronous programming frameworks and thread safety in mobile and backend environments
- 2 years of experience with CI/CD automation, testing, and monitoring, using tools such as Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or related, for automated testing, release management, performance profiling, incident response, and analytics
- 2 years of experience working in Agile teams, with strong skills in Git version control, technical documentation, code review, refactoring, and debugging
- 2 years of experience working with Jira, Figma, or similar tools
Conditions
- This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location.
- Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role.
- Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.