Instacart
Staff Software Engineer, Web
Remote Software Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedRecently added
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalLead
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Staff Software Engineer, Web
Requirements and responsibilities
Readable role content extracted into sections for faster review.
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.
Similar roles
Keep a backup shortlist.
React, TypeScript 1 accepted country
Senior/Lead Full Stack EngineerTeamviewerView role React, TypeScript 8 accepted countries
Senior Full Stack EngineerFionetView role React, TypeScript 1 accepted country
Senior Full Stack EngineerSureifyView role React, TypeScript 13 accepted countries
Junior Full Stack EngineerMark43View role Stack
Use these tags to compare similar remote roles.
Location eligibility
Candidates should apply only when their profile country is listed here.
Your profileCountry not setSign in to check your country against this role.
Hiring flow
WithMira shows the role, then sends candidates to the company application.
1Check role fit, stack, and location eligibility in WithMira.
2Open the company application page from the tracked apply link.
3Save the role or subscribe for similar opportunities before leaving.