Staff Software Engineer, Web

Details

• Set the technical direction for Instacart's home and search web experiences, including architecture decisions around rendering, data fetching, and client performance.
• Build innovative features that help customers discover new retailers and deepen engagement with existing ones.
• Drive improvements to Core Web Vitals, page load performance, and overall frontend health.
• Improve SEO and organic discovery to help new customers find Instacart.
• Partner with ML and backend teams to surface personalized, real-time search and recommendations on the web.
• Mentor senior engineers and grow engineering capability across the team.
• Extensive experience in a senior/staff engineer role with a strong focus on web systems design and frontend architecture.
• Deep expertise in modern web technologies (React, TypeScript, Next.js etc.) with the ability to reason about end-to-end system architecture across client and server.
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale web platforms supporting multiple product surfaces.
• Ability to dive deep into web performance optimization rendering, Core Web Vitals, bundle size, caching strategies, and client-side data fetching.
• Experience leading engineering design reviews and influencing technical decisions across teams.
• Experience building web systems used and maintained by large engineering organizations (30+ engineers).
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical strategy across organizational boundaries.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and driving long-term technical vision.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on frontend.
• Experience in Search, Recommendations, Personalization, or related discovery platforms is a huge plus.
• Experience with hybrid architectures, webview-based client systems, or cross-platform web rendering.
• Experience partnering closely with machine learning, product, and design teams.
• Experience building frontend platforms or design systems that support multiple feature teams at scale.
• Understanding of the online grocery, marketplace, or e-commerce ecosystem.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.