Senior Software Engineer, Core Experience

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 #SECE39

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

Design, build, and implement software solutions to optimize and scale the Instacart platform and related technologies as part of the Core Experience team. 

Duties include: 

• Developing highly scalable software using innovative computer science and software engineering principles while ensuring proper protocols are in place to rapidly roll out upgrades and new features; 
• Analyzing and optimizing expensive SQL queries; 
• Enabling sophisticated, data-driven features that adapt to customer shopping behavior; 
• Leading strategic planning and execution of development projects, from inception to deployment and maintenance; 
• Implementing high quality solutions to create engaging and straightforward shopping experiences, focusing on everything from the user interface to the underlying systems supporting web and mobile platforms; 
• Executing ongoing testing and analysis of current systems, including independent performance analysis, diagnosis, and troubleshooting; determining design solutions to problematic programming; 
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field (or foreign equivalent).
• 5 years of experience in the job offered or related. 
• 5 years of experience working with Java, Ruby, Python, or similar programming languages; 
• 5 years of experience working with MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, or similar data management systems; 
• 5 years of experience working with API query technologies, such as GraphQL; 
• 2 years of experience working with machine learning model development and iteration; 
• 2 years of experience working with client/server architectures and application architectures;
• 2 years of experience working with large codebases on cross-functional teams.