Engineering Jobs at Instacart

• Develop and enhance iOS applications used by business clients.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features that improve the enterprise-grade platform.

• Conduct engineering reviews to ensure high standards across all projects.
• Identify unifying patterns and systems, improving architectural coherence and efficiency.

• Availability: Predicting item availability using machine learning and real-time data.
• Replacements: Developing algorithms to identify optimal substitutes for unavailable items.

• Designing, developing, and sustaining the comprehensive access controls and governance systems that improve the integrity and privacy of our data.
• Ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of the data platform.

• Lead and break down complex problems while keeping the broader data vision in focus.
• Collaborate with engineers and engineering teams, providing mentorship and fostering a strong engineering culture.

• Develop and implement core platform solutions for pioneering product launches that revolutionize the digital grocery landscape.
• Define and advance a three-year technological vision to enhance innovation and platform scalability.

• Develop and implement core platform solutions for pioneering product launches that revolutionize the digital grocery landscape.
• Define and advance a three-year technological vision to enhance innovation and platform scalability.

• Develop and implement core platform solutions for pioneering product launches that revolutionize the digital grocery landscape.
• Define and advance a three-year technological vision to enhance innovation and platform scalability.

• Develop our next version of Instacart Design System’s iOS components
• Provide simple solutions that help engineers create great experiences at high velocity

• Develop our next version of Instacart Design System’s iOS components
• Provide simple solutions that help engineers create great experiences at high velocity

• Collaborate with Business Development and Product teams to define the tech vision and craft future products for retailers.
• Serve as an authority in building and managing the lifecycle of both backend and mobile applications.

• Define, communicate, and drive the technical strategy for the team that supports the product strategy and key bets for the company, including new technical investments.
• Drive high-quality execution of key business outcomes of the team by overseeing the roadmap and enabling technical and product decisions.

• Own analytical frameworks that guide the product roadmap
• Design rigorous experiments and interpret results to draw detailed and actionable conclusions

• Design, build, validate, and ship high quality product features with a strong sense of urgency, efficiency, and ownership
• Work closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and peer engineering teams to define project requirements and execution plans

• Grow, develop, manage, and lead a multidisciplinary team of seasoned software engineers, system engineers, and security engineers across all aspects of Security and Privacy.
• Advise executive and senior technical & business leadership on Instacart’s privacy and security vision through regular and consistent written and in-person communication.

• Develop and optimize machine learning models to enhance search relevance, ranking, and personalization for millions of users
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists and engineers, to build scalable and efficient search solutions

• Leads, solves, and builds system innovations to solve some of the most challenging and interesting technical problems. Some examples:

ads serving and indexing systems with rigorous scaling, availability, and latency constraints, that can scale horizontally to billions of product items,
infrastructure to rank heterogeneous content with cutting-edge ML models,
data systems and products that process and move billions of events every day, and that power not just Instacart but hundreds of other retailer partners, and
workflow orchestration that advances the state of the art in scale, correctness, and developer velocity.

• Product strategy: Using data to identify the most promising opportunity areas along with contributing data expertise to refine and develop new product ideas
• Impact sizing: Providing an estimated impact of implementing a new feature

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and efficient data pipelines for collecting, processing, and storing large volumes of structured and unstructured data, specifically image and video streams and relevant metadata.
• Develop and integrate tools for data labeling and annotation, ensuring high-quality training da...

• Support our warehouse carts provisioning and all necessary software installation
• Coordinate with our logistics team to deliver carts to our customers on-time