Senior Software Engineer, Instacart Business

Details

• Building a suite of capabilities tailored to meet business needs, such as team member management, team-wide insights/reporting, tax exemptions, spend controls, etc.
• Building new and improving existing UX flows to encourage creation of more business users on Instacart and more spend/adoption.
• New applications/surfaces to reach and address the ordering needs of business users in a variety of ways (ex: retailer B2B whitelabel sites, ordering from food distributors directly, etc.)
• Holistically own and lead major workstreams within the team, from inception of a project to timely and quality launches.
• Influence the direction and roadmap of the team through blending strong technical vision and product sense
• Produce high quality technical artifacts (design docs, runbooks, etc.) in the process of executing on projects
• Contribute high-quality code and code reviews for the team
• Participate in the on-call rotation and proactively identify/address relevant production issues
• Elevate the team overall through mentoring other engineers and identifying/driving areas to improve effectiveness of the team.
• Collaborate across teams and cross functional stakeholders to foster a unified approach to product development, facilitating consensus, and driving effective outcomes.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent proven industry experience
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Strong sense of ownership and entrepreneurial spirit to deliver launches/results
• Strong product sense and willing product thinker who is excited to think deeply about the areas that will advance the team forward and influence the roadmap of the team
• A collaborative mindset to be able to partner with engineers, designers and PM's from multiple teams to co-create impactful solutions while supporting system contributions
• Expertise in one or more backend languages (ex: Ruby, Java, Python, etc.)
• Strong technical acumen and technical writing skills, with the ability to create high quality technical design docs that result in maintainable and scalable architectures/systems
• Solid communicator, comfortable seeking and receiving feedback
• Strong analytical and debugging skills
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy in coding implementation, keen eye for edge cases and code reviews.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present ideas clearly and influence key stakeholders at the manager, director, and VP level
• Expertise in Ruby with a solid understanding of Rails
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog
• Prior work experience in the B2B and/or e-commerce space