Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Instacart's FoodStorm team as a Senior Software Engineer II and lead the development of strategic technical and product growth initiatives. You will enhance services, solve technical challenges, and manage work streams, directly impacting customer experience. This role involves full-stack software and database development to build and enhance product functionality within the Order Management software platform. The position offers full-time work from home or access to Melbourne offices, a competitive salary, and additional employee benefits. You will collaborate with colleagues, mentor junior staff, and maintain company coding standards. The team combines the culture of a scale-up with the benefits of a tech giant, offering a unique opportunity to join a 12-member engineering team based in Australia.

Requirements

• 5+ years Highly proficient web development skills in React, HTML, CSS & Javascript
• 4+ years Highly proficient in Microsoft .NET, C#
• 4+ years Highly proficient in Microsoft SQL Server (SQL Azure preferred), T-SQL, Tables, Views & Stored Procedures
• 8+ years Highly proficient in Web Application Development
• Experience with Go, Rust or Ruby frameworks
• Highly proficient in building security centric software in alignment with industry standards including OWASP
• Experience in management, deployment and scaling of cloud based services ideally the Azure Platform and AKS
• Experience in Infrastructure as code practices and tools including Terraform
• High level of business acumen with ability to consider all dimensions of business issues into solution design
• High level of written and oral skills
• Knowledge of scalable system design including cloud scalability
• Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience in managing team members and other engineers

Responsibilities

• Lead team-wide initiatives, problem solving & troubleshooting complex technical and architectural design challenges, implementing innovative solutions
• Continually apply industry best practice coding practices to the organization and assist the team with their adoption
• Facilitate collaboration with colleagues and mentoring/teaching other technical staff
• Assist in the owning and maintaining of company standards for system security, code formatting and other development documentation
• Collaborate with the Product Manager and necessary stakeholders to assist with engineering solution designs, effort sizing and delivery of software projects
• Implement processes and practices to support the scaling of the development team & output as required
• Aid in creation and management of team processes, growth and hiring
• Apply practical solutions to business problems by balancing time, costs, technical outcomes, security and scalability considerations
• Identify problems in other codebases in addition to your own, and collaborate with other Instacart teams
• On-call support and incident response

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Additional employee benefits
• Full time work from home or access to offices based in Melbourne