Staff Software Engineer
Instacart
π΅ $159k-$176k
πRemote - Canada
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Job highlights
Summary
Join Instacart's backend engineering team and contribute to the systems powering millions of online grocery orders daily. You'll work on challenging scaling problems, designing features, and collaborating in an open environment. This role offers significant ownership and autonomy, allowing you to manage projects from problem identification to solution deployment. You will ship high-quality, scalable, and robust solutions while having the freedom to suggest and drive high-impact initiatives related to storage solutions. Instacart offers a flexible work environment and competitive compensation and benefits, including equity grants.
Requirements
- 10+ 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 othersβ 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
- Bachelorβs 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
- New hire equity grant
- Annual refresh grants
- $221,000 β $245,000 CAD (Canadian based candidates)
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