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Senior Software Engineer II

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Senior Software Engineer II in USA

  • Instacart
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Drive the Paid MarTech team’s technical roadmap and make architectural decisions for reusable, scalable systems.
  • Improve developer productivity through process evolution, tooling, abstractions, and code-quality improvements.
  • Lead team-wide and cross-team initiatives while partnering with senior Product and Marketing leaders on strategic and technical decisions.
  • Advance observability, resilience, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and security-by-design practices.
  • Mentor engineers up to L5 and resolve organizational or cross-team execution blockers.

Requirements

  • 8–12 years of software engineering experience leading technical roadmaps and team-level architectural decisions.
  • Expert-level Python proficiency and experience designing reusable abstractions, frameworks, and patterns adopted across multiple projects.
  • Deep knowledge of scalable, high-throughput systems with observability, cost-efficiency, and security considerations.
  • Experience influencing product roadmaps and identifying strategic technical opportunities with senior Product and Marketing leaders.
  • Demonstrated success improving team productivity through process improvements, tooling, mentorship, and technical leadership.
  • Strong communication and influence skills for driving cross-team and cross-functional initiatives.
  • Preferred experience includes AI-assisted development infrastructure, ad tech and marketing technology ecosystems, legacy modernization, technical debt management, coding standards, architectural patterns, technical reviews, crisis support, and external cross-pillar collaboration.

Benefits

  • Remote work under Instacart’s Flex First policy, with flexibility to work from home, an office, or another preferred location and regular in-person events.
  • Market-competitive compensation and benefits based on work location.
  • Eligibility for a new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.

Salary: $192k - $243k/yr

Instacart

Instacart is a leading grocery technology company that partners with more than 2,200 retail banners – representing nearly 100,000 stores – to transform how people shop for the groceries they need from the retailers they trust, while creating flexible earning opportunities for shoppers. Through th...

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