We're transforming the grocery industry
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe
everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it
together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting
complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community.
We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their
groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings
opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the
team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work
of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our 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. Learn more about our
flexible approach to where we work. [https://instacart.careers/remote/]
ABOUT THE ROLE
Are you ready to take your development skills to the next level? We’re looking
for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Ads team. You’ll play a critical role
in the evolution of our Ads suite and help build world-class reporting solutions
across various platforms, ensuring that advertisers and retailers receive
timely, accurate, and actionable data insights. By working closely with Product
Designers, Product Managers, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and
other cross-functional partners, you’ll contribute to the advancement of our Ads
suite and guarantee a seamless flow of data to our users.
The Instacart Ads team is at the forefront of refining our Ads products and
supporting infrastructure, so your work will directly enhance our capability to
process petabyte-scale data and deliver reports essential for billing, strategic
decision-making, and partner management.
Our products are used by millions of people every year. To meet–and
exceed–expectations we are rapidly improving and modernizing our ads platform,
helping raise the quality bar for our products across the entire organization.
Sound exciting? Keep reading.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Ads team is a diverse group of spirited and highly-dedicated engineers
focused on crafting and delivering comprehensive reporting solutions to our
advertisers and retailers.
Our team thrives on dynamic challenges, and we take pride in developing and
maintaining scalable and fault-tolerant metrics delivery systems. We've embraced
a culture of open and candid collaboration where everyone's views matter,
allowing us to continuously innovate and make substantial impact to the digital
advertising industry through our work.
Our tech stack includes but is not limited to Rails, Go, DBT, Airflow, Scala,
Apache Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake, Snowflake, Python and Terraform. We
believe in constantly learning, growing and adopting the most efficient
practices that enable us to deliver quality data services to our stakeholders.
If you're a detective at heart, love solving complex problems, and are
passionate about the intersection of data and technology, you'll fit right in!
Overview of the Ads teams that are currently hiring:
- Ads Measurement & Data: Our cutting-edge data team is responsible for
building scalable, reliable, and maintainable ETLs and its underlying
architecture and platform. We directly support critical internal and external
systems and metrics such as billing, attribution, spam detection, etc. Our
non-functional requirements are achieved through streaming and batch
processing using Scala-Spark, Airflow, DBT, Python, and Go. If you're
interested in working cross-functionally with several key stakeholders,
helping shape our data strategy, building distributed systems, and solving
complex data architecture challenges in a fast-paced, high-impact
environment, this could be the opportunity for you!
- Advertiser Optimization: We power Instacart’s advertising business by
creating innovative solutions that maximize ad performance and deliver
measurable value to our partners. Through advanced algorithms, machine
learning, and a robust data ecosystem, the team helps advertisers achieve
their goals while driving Instacart’s revenue growth. By fostering a cycle of
success for advertisers, they play a pivotal role in the company’s overall
business success.
ABOUT THE JOB
We believe that high-quality data is essential for any business organization, as
such we are looking for a strong software engineer excited to raise our
efficiency, quality and scalability bar. You will be able to have extensive
ownership and the ability to help set best practices and contribute to product
and infrastructure features.
As a craft leader, you'll be responsible for contributing to the vision,
strategy and development of our multi-platform reporting system that is
efficient, scalable, and meets diverse user needs. You will advocate for data
quality, correctness, scalability and latency standards to ensure consistency in
how we enable data-driven decisions and features across the organization.
You will also be proactive in spearheading new initiatives, coding and
documenting components, writing and reviewing system design documents and
partnering with other teams and functions to gather and understand our
customer's requirements. You will think and plan strategically for short and
long term initiatives to continue shaping our platform and products.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a
related field, or equivalent proven industry experience (4+ years).
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
- Comprehensive understanding of distributed systems, proven experience with
data processing technologies such as DBT and Airflow and common web
frameworks such as Rails.
- Highly proficient with SQL, capable of writing and reviewing complex queries
for data analysis and debugging.
- You can design for scale with the entire system in mind.
- Solid communicator, comfortable seeking and receiving feedback.
- Strong analytical and debugging skills.
- Strong sense of ownership working with a large codebase and diverse suite of
products.
- 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.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present
ideas clearly and influence key stakeholders at the manager, director, and VP
level.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Prior work experience in the digital advertising industry.
- Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Hive or
Kafka, and with both streaming and batching data pipelines.
- Proven experience with distributed system design.
- Strong general programming and algorithm skills.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy in the implementation, keen eye for
edge cases and code reviews.
- Data driven mindset.
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each
location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range
for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please
review our Flex First remote work policy here
[https://instacart.careers/flex-first/]. Currently, we are only hiring in the
following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills
required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity
grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits
offerings here [https://instacart.careers/taste-of-instacart/].
For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate
are listed below.
CAN
$165,000—$214,000 CAD
