Senior Software Engineer II, Connected Stores

We're transforming the grocery industry

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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. 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 has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.

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Overview

About the Role  

Connected Stores bring together Instacart’s modular in-store technology offerings and link them with Instacart Platform’s e-commerce solutions to help retailers deliver unified commerce experiences.

In our Connected Stores organization, as a Senior Engineer II, you will have a critical role in contributing to key projects that enable grocers to provide a seamless and personalized shopping experience both online and in-store. You will focus on implementing innovative, technically complex projects to deliver new in-store technologies to our retail partners, ensuring a smooth transition from concepts to dependable products.

Our initial announcement of the team is on our blog here, and has a lot of good information on what we’re building.

About the Team  

The Connected Stores org is all about moving fast. We value rapid iteration more than detailed long-range planning and get a kick out of solving real problems for both consumers in the store and our retail partners. We believe the grocery store of the future will transform customers’ expectations:

• Iterative: We work in small steps, fast. We’re building zero to one and we work a lot like a startup.
• Collaborative: We work together to solve problems and avoid silos.
• Inventive & Innovative: We take high-conviction bets and try them.
• Self-organizing: We often manage our own work and are driven to do more. We don’t wait for someone to assign us work and we don’t get blocked on questions. We make decisions and share them.
• Pragmatic: We don’t reinvent the wheel or build abstractions before we know what we’re building.
• High ownership: We break out of the constraints of hierarchy-based expectations to get the job done.

About the Job  

• You will lead and implement technical projects within the Connected Stores portfolio, focusing on core platform and infrastructure aspects.
• You will work alongside a small, senior-leaning team of engineers who are responsible for scaling the Connected Stores initiative
• You will collaborate with Product Management, Operations, Technical Project Management, and other engineering teams to ensure all stakeholders are in close communication on our efforts
• You will mentor and support engineers within the Connected Stores teams, promoting a culture of development and continuous learning.
• You will contribute to a culture of high ownership and impactful collaboration, reinforcing Instacart’s core values.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience with a solid understanding of back-end Web technologies in production settings.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of projects and deliver high-quality technical solutions.
• Self-motivated with a strong drive to work in a startup-like environment.
• Experience working within a large codebase shared with multi-functional teams.
• Strong proficiency in SQL.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience collaborating with hardware teams.
• Some experience in front-end web technologies
• Proven experience in scaling systems and teams from initial stages to broader implementations.

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.

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. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.

For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.