Overview

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.

OVERVIEW

About the Role

Caper is one of the critical pillars of Instacart’s newly unveiled Connected Store technology. Caper offers smart shopping carts powered by deep learning and computer vision to enable a seamless grab-and-go retail experience. The Caper Backend team is currently seeking a strong, self-motivated Staff Software Engineer to join us in shipping new product features and scaling our backend systems with orders of magnitude growth in mind.

About the Team

Caper builds smart shopping carts that provide magical shopping experiences. The Caper Backend team owns the entirety of the backend software that powers Caper products, including backend services, data pipelines, data warehouses, cloud infrastructure and devops. The team works closely with FE teams, product teams, other Instacart teams, and retailers to constantly seek opportunities in improving Caper product offerings.

ABOUT THE JOB

  • Architect, design and lead the implementation of high quality, scalable, and elegant software solutions.
  • Ship and maintain software systems, across the stack and across the entire lifecycle, with hands-on skills, while being part of a small team with large scope.
  • Navigate ambiguity effectively, influence product decisions and seek alignment with cross functional teams.
  • Identify technical/process improvements, define the technical directions of the team and support the growth of the team.

ABOUT YOU

Minimum Qualifications

  • Self-motivation and an enjoyment for a startup environment
  • A strong sense of ownership
  • Solid understanding of common backend technologies across the stack in a production environment and strong system design skills
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Ship backend services on cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS)
  • Architect large-scale distributed systems
  • Build product features from scratch
  • Instacart and Caper’s technology is constantly evolving and adapting. Some of the technologies you would use in our teams include:
  • Java, Ruby, Go, gRPC, bazel, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Kubernetes

Accommodations & Accessibility

At Instacart, we strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need assistance submitting an application through our career site due to a disability, please submit an Accommodations Request Form and someone from our team will reach out soon to see how we may be able to assist.