Instacart is hiring a
Software Engineer II

Summary

Join Instacart Engineering in Toronto and help us grow! As a Software Engineer, you'll design, build, validate, and ship high-quality product features with a strong sense of urgency, efficiency, and ownership. You'll work closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and peer engineering teams to define project requirements and execution plans. With flexibility to work remotely several days a week and a state-of-the-art office in the heart of Toronto's Liberty Village, you'll have the opportunity to make an impact that directly helps millions of customers, retailers, brands, and shoppers.

Requirements

• Recent degree in a technology discipline such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
• 2-4 years of work experience post-graduation in a technology field
• Experience working with distributed systems
• A strong sense of ownership and intellectual curiosity to understand problems in depth
• Previous experience building features end to end or publishing your own app
• Prior experience with Python, Ruby, React, PostgreSQL, Go
• Excellent collaborator who is able to work with teammates to objectively problem-solve
• Growth mindset - seeks and is receptive to actionable feedback and growth opportunities
• Takes accountability seriously; able to deliver responsibilities on time and on budget
• Self-motivated and thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Able to work in small teams with significant ownership and autonomy

Responsibilities

• Design, build, validate, and ship high quality product features with a strong sense of urgency, efficiency, and ownership
• Work closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and peer engineering teams to define project requirements and execution plans
• Ensure that system designs including APIs, deployment architecture, and dependency selection result in highly scalable, robust solutions that minimize support costs and improve an outstanding customer experience
• Contribute broadly to Instacart’s success by exercising your freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives
• Work within a team that manages petabytes of data used by hundreds of people across the company for the core product, machine learning, reporting, analysis, and much more
• Design, develop, and maintain highly efficient data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and delivering data from various sources
• Design and build data models and work together with application engineers to ensure the collection of high quality data

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in a fast-paced startup environment
• Data Engineering experience: designing and implementing data pipelines, optimizing data schemas, ensuring data quality & integrity
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Experience with data streaming & big data technologies: Apache Spark, Airflow, Hadoop

Benefits

• Flexibility to work remotely several days a week and work out of a state-of-the-art office in the heart of Toronto’s Liberty Village
• Learn from world-class engineering leaders, many of whom are industry veterans with illustrative experiences in Google, Meta, Amazon, and other major tech companies
• Make an impact that directly helps millions of customers, retailers, brands, and shoppers, right from day one!
• Gain exposure to how a world-class engineering team works, from sprint planning to shipping code, as well as close cross-functional collaborations with Product, UX, Business, Data Science, and other partners
• Generous learning and development opportunities and an annual $1,000 Personal Professional Development stipend for you to grow your skills and career
• Opportunities available across the entire spectrum of SWE roles: data, frontend, backend, systems, infrastructure, optimization, and more!