Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Instacart's backend engineering team and contribute to the systems powering millions of online grocery orders daily. You'll work in a small, autonomous team, collaborating with other engineers and stakeholders to design, develop, and deploy scalable and robust solutions. This role offers significant ownership and the opportunity to drive high-impact initiatives related to storage solutions. You'll utilize technologies like Go, Ruby, Python, and various cloud platforms. Instacart offers a flexible work environment and competitive compensation and benefits, including equity grants.

Requirements

• 7+ years of working experience as a software engineer in one or more large-scale cloud services or application development environment
• 2+ Years working with AWS RDS Postgres with a strong knowledge of SQL
• Self-motivation and an enjoyment for a growth-oriented startup environment
• A strong sense of ownership that drives improvements for customers as well as automation and scale for the systems
• The drive & ability to dive deep into technical challenges and champion root causes, solving problems correctly
• You enjoy being highly productive, shipping code, reviewing others’ PRs and iteratively guiding code bases towards best practices and excellence
• You are able to scale yourself effectively via junior engineers and accelerate the team through effective designs, written & communication, delegation, establishing standards & best practices, code reviews
• Strong ability to architect and design systems using common back-end Web technologies (such as Go, Ruby on Rails, Python, etc) in a production environment
• An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
• Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team

Responsibilities

• Be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for managing things directly
• Work closely with other application engineering teams and internal stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution
• Ship high quality, scalable and robust solutions with a sense of urgency
• Have the freedom to suggest and drive high-impact initiatives related to Storage solutions that unlock new innovations, accelerate application development, create resiliency & high-availability, and right-size storage needs company-wide

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering
• You are a mentor to other software engineers, helping equip them and grow as software development professionals
• You like solving the kind of high-impact, org-wide problems that involve tackling abstract challenges and turning them into concrete programs that deliver successfully

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
• Remote work
• Equity grant
• Annual refresh grants