Senior Mobile Engineer

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.

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.

Job #MENS39

Maplebear Inc. D/B/A Instacart in San Francisco, CA seeks Senior Mobile Engineer (Multiple Openings). Employee may be stationed anywhere in the continental United States but will report directly to Instacart headquarters in San Francisco, CA.  

Responsible for designing, maintaining, and optimizing large scale Android and backend software systems. 

Duties include: 

• Developing and implementing high-performance mobile and distributed backend solutions
• Leading the end-to-end development lifecycle for applications by gathering requirements and conducting technical design
• Creating and maintaining robust pipelines to facilitate rapid and reliable software delivery
• Ensuring robust security, data privacy, and compliance with industry standards throughout the software development lifecycle
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and deliver new features
• Other duties as assigned.  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or related field (or foreign equivalent).
• 5 years of experience in the job offered or related
• 2 years of experience in advanced Android development, including MVVM/MVI architecture and dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger or Hilt
• 2 years of experience in Kotlin, Java, and SQL, including work with asynchronous programming frameworks and thread safety in mobile and backend environments
• 2 years of experience with CI/CD automation, testing, and monitoring, using tools such as Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or related, for automated testing, release management, performance profiling, incident response, and analytics
• 2 years of experience working in Agile teams, with strong skills in Git version control, technical documentation, code review, refactoring, and debugging
• 2 years of experience working with Jira, Figma, or similar tools.