Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Instacart is a grocery technology company focused on helping people access food and household goods while supporting flexible earning opportunities for personal shoppers. The Senior Software Engineer, Core Experience will design, build, and implement scalable software solutions for the Instacart platform, optimize data systems, enable data-driven shopping features, and lead development projects across web and mobile technologies.
Responsibilities
- Developing highly scalable software using innovative computer science and software engineering principles while ensuring proper protocols are in place to rapidly roll out upgrades and new features
- Analyzing and optimizing expensive SQL queries
- Enabling sophisticated, data-driven features that adapt to customer shopping behavior
- Leading strategic planning and execution of development projects, from inception to deployment and maintenance
- Implementing high quality solutions to create engaging and straightforward shopping experiences, focusing on everything from the user interface to the underlying systems supporting web and mobile platforms
- Executing ongoing testing and analysis of current systems, including independent performance analysis, diagnosis, and troubleshooting; determining design solutions to problematic programming
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field (or foreign equivalent)
- 5 years of experience in the job offered or related
- 5 years of experience working with Java, Ruby, Python, or similar programming languages
- 5 years of experience working with MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, or similar data management systems
- 5 years of experience working with API query technologies, such as GraphQL
- 2 years of experience working with machine learning model development and iteration
- 2 years of experience working with client/server architectures and application architectures
- 2 years of experience working with large codebases on cross-functional teams
Benefits
- Employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events.
- This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
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