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 providing flexible earning opportunities for personal shoppers. The Software Engineer II will build full-stack SEO and AEO features, data pipelines, and scalable systems that improve search visibility, AI answer engine performance, and organic traffic. The role involves end-to-end delivery, experimentation, technical decision-making, and collaboration with Marketing and Product.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship full SEO and AEO features end-to-end with minimal oversight, from development through experimentation and rollout
- Design, build, and ship high-quality full-stack features that enhance search engine visibility, AI answer engine performance, and organic traffic with a strong sense of urgency and ownership
- Apply technical best practices to deliver performant, observable, and cost-aware code that improves traditional search rankings, LLM visibility, and user experience
- Contribute to data pipelines for SEO and AEO data ingestion, transformation, and delivery, applying simple, reusable abstractions to keep the system healthy as it grows
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and marketing partners to translate user needs into technical requirements, surface trade-offs, and deliver on shared goals
Skills
- 24 years of software engineering experience with proficiency in React, Ruby, Python, PostgreSQL, and SQL
- Demonstrated ability to build and launch complete features end-to-end with minimal oversight, including development, experimentation, and production rollout
- Experience with distributed systems and data engineering designing pipelines, optimizing schemas, and ensuring data quality with exposure to Airflow or DBT
- Ability to write performant code and improve system observability through logging and metrics, identifying and resolving bottlenecks as they arise
- Strong product mindset with the ability to translate user needs into technical requirements and understand how your work impacts business metrics
- Effective communicator who can collaborate across marketing, product, and engineering partners to align on requirements and deliver solutions
- Experience working on SEO/AEO initiatives or familiarity with SEO best practices, answer engine optimization for LLMs, structured data (Schema.org), search engine crawling/indexing, and Core Web Vitals
- Familiarity with how AI-powered search engines and LLMs consume and surface content, with curiosity about optimizing for AI answer generation
- Experience with big data technologies (Apache Spark, Airflow, Hadoop), NoSQL databases, and data warehousing platforms (Snowflake, Redshift)
- Track record of proactively raising and resolving technical debt to keep code and systems healthy
- Experience launching experiments and analyzing results, including A/B testing frameworks for measuring SEO/AEO impact
- Previous experience partnering with marketing teams on growth initiatives in fast-paced startup environments
Benefits
- This role is remote.
- Eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
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