Senior Software Engineer, Instacart Business

OVERVIEW

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Instacart Business team, you will play a pivotal role in advancing forward the B2B experience and capabilities of Instacart. With over 1 million businesses (from small to enterprise) who have relied on Instacart to address a variety of ordering use cases, your work will be crucial in growing this massive segment of users.

This role is for a lead engineer within the team, and it requires an individual who has a strong combination of ownership, technical excellence, and product sense. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about crafting scalable software and excited to take ownership of the product development lifecycle from conception to deployment. Sound exciting? Keep reading.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Instacart Business team is tasked with developing Instacart’s presence in the B2B ecommerce domain. You will be joining a dynamic team that operates like a startup within Instacart, dedicated to harnessing the vast potential of business users. Our roadmap includes areas such as:

• Building a suite of capabilities tailored to meet business needs, such as team member management, team-wide insights/reporting, tax exemptions, spend controls, etc.
• Building new and improving existing UX flows to encourage creation of more business users on Instacart and more spend/adoption.
• New applications/surfaces to reach and address the ordering needs of business users in a variety of ways (ex: retailer B2B whitelabel sites, ordering from food distributors directly, etc.)

ABOUT THE JOB

• Holistically own and lead major workstreams within the team, from inception of a project to timely and quality launches.
• Influence the direction and roadmap of the team through blending strong technical vision and product sense
• Produce high quality technical artifacts (design docs, runbooks, etc.) in the process of executing on projects
• Contribute high-quality code and code reviews for the team
• Participate in the on-call rotation and proactively identify/address relevant production issues
• Elevate the team overall through mentoring other engineers and identifying/driving areas to improve effectiveness of the team.
• Collaborate across teams and cross functional stakeholders to foster a unified approach to product development, facilitating consensus, and driving effective outcomes.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent proven industry experience
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Strong sense of ownership and entrepreneurial spirit to deliver launches/results
• Strong product sense and willing product thinker who is excited to think deeply about the areas that will advance the team forward and influence the roadmap of the team
• A collaborative mindset to be able to partner with engineers, designers and PM’s from multiple teams to co-create impactful solutions while supporting system contributions
• Expertise in one or more backend languages (ex: Ruby, Java, Python, etc.)
• Strong technical acumen and technical writing skills, with the ability to create high quality technical design docs that result in maintainable and scalable architectures/systems
• Solid communicator, comfortable seeking and receiving feedback
• Strong analytical and debugging skills
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy in coding implementation, keen eye for edge cases and code reviews.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present ideas clearly and influence key stakeholders at the manager, director, and VP level

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Expertise in Ruby with a solid understanding of Rails
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog
• Prior work experience in the B2B and/or e-commerce space