Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Instacart is a grocery technology company delivering groceries and household goods while creating flexible earning opportunities for Personal Shoppers. The Senior Software Engineer will provide technical leadership for the Paid Marketing technology team by driving its technical roadmap, architectural decisions, cross-team initiatives, and developer productivity improvements.
Responsibilities
- Drive the team's technical roadmap and architectural decisions, balancing short and long-term investments to build reusable, scalable systems that serve current and future marketing needs
- Enhance developer productivity by evolving processes, tools, and abstractions that improve team efficiency, system extensibility, and code quality across the codebase
- Lead team-wide initiatives and propose strategic work on behalf of engineering management, partnering directly with senior Product and Marketing leaders on product design and technical decisions
- Champion advanced observability, resilience (including chaos engineering and disaster recovery), cost optimization, and security-by-design principles across all team projects
- Mentor engineers up to L5, act as a force multiplier through well-documented processes, and proactively resolve conflicts that block execution across teams
Skills
- 8–12 years of software engineering experience with demonstrated expertise leading technical roadmaps and making architectural decisions that impact team-level systems
- Expert-level proficiency in Python with proven ability to design and implement reusable abstractions, frameworks, and patterns adopted across multiple projects
- Deep technical knowledge of building scalable, high-throughput systems with comprehensive observability, cost efficiency, and security considerations
- Demonstrated ability to partner with senior Product and Marketing leaders, significantly influencing product roadmap through identification of strategic technical opportunities
- Proven track record of enhancing team productivity through process improvements, tooling development, and mentorship of senior engineers
- Excellent communication and influence skills with ability to drive execution of cross-team and cross-functional initiatives while navigating organizational context and dependencies
- Experience defining and establishing infrastructure, tooling, and best practices for AI-assisted development across engineering teams
- Deep expertise in ad tech platforms and marketing technology ecosystems, recognized as a domain expert within the organization
- Track record of leading large-scale legacy system modernization efforts and strategically managing technical debt at team level
- Experience establishing coding standards, architectural patterns, and technical review processes that elevate team quality
- Demonstrated ability to proactively contribute during crises outside core technical expertise, serving as technical consultant for sub-pillar level initiatives
- Experience collaborating with external teams on cross-pillar partnerships and acting as point of contact for technical collaboration
Benefits
- This role is remote and 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.
- This role is eligible for annual refresh grants.
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