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We're transforming the grocery industry

Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Since 2012, we’ve been working towards creating a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together.

Groceries delivered to your door in as little as an hour. It seems simple, right? Well, it’s more complex than that. From re-routing deliveries during snowstorms, to connecting customers with coupons and deals for their favorite brands, to updating over half a billion grocery data lines every night...our efforts bring Instacart closer to being the operating system for the grocery industry.

OVERVIEW

We are looking to hire strong engineers to grow our growth team. Millions of users visit our sites every day but only a fraction of them experience the magic of grocery delivery. The features you design, implement, and deploy will let these users save 100s of hours shopping for groceries without giving up on their staples.

Why do we need you?

We are investing heavily in the next-generation of our services. At our velocity and volume-level we need the ability to deploy new products and features faster and better. That’s our choice for the traditional 3-dimensional engineering trade-off decision. We need to build the best new user experience anywhere. We can’t afford to spend time looking backward at legacy limitations in our systems. We need new architectural designs and new services that couple best-in-class engineering with highly-informed business knowledge!

Do you have exceptional experience with, aptitude for, or just interest in any of the following software engineering areas?

End to end development catered to new user experience in a modern tech stack (RoR, React, Typescript, GraphQL)
Email and notification frameworks
Experiment frameworks and data driven approach to development
Authentication: SSO integration, flow optimization, security and more
SEO: Top of the funnel optimization, Log analysis, Crawl Optimization and more
Growth hacks!

Join us and help Instacart grow!

ABOUT THE JOB

Execute as part of a small team with significant ownership and autonomy over your projects
Design, implement, and ship high quality features with a strong sense of urgency and accountability
Work closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and peer engineering teams to define project requirements and execution plans
Ensure that system designs including APIs, deployment architecture, and dependency selection result in highly scalable, robust solutions that minimize support costs and maximize an extraordinary customer experience
Contribute broadly to Instacart’s success by exercising your freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives

Instacart's technology is constantly changing and adapting. Some of the technologies you would use in our Growth teams at Instacart include:

React on top of Typescript
Ruby on Rails framework leveraging Sorbet for strong-typing
Client-facing flexible APIs exposed via GraphQL
Postgres and Snowflake backend relational data stores
Async durable event handling infrastructure including async RPC via AWS SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ
Caching and durable job dispatching using Memcached and Redis
Auto-scaling elastic service deployments built on AWS ECS, ALBs, and supporting cloud services
Rich monitoring and alerting infrastructure built on AWS Cloud Watch, DataDog, Sentry, OpsGenie and supporting services
Any new integrations you will research, propose, implement, and deploy!

ABOUT YOU

We rely on our values to guide our decisions: Solve for the Customer, Every Minute Counts, This is Your Baby, Go Far, Together and Of Course, But Maybe. What does this mean for your role? We are looking for someone who has a good mix of the following traits:

Self-motivation and an enjoyment for a startup environment
A strong sense of ownership
Strong knowledge of common back-end Web technologies in a production environment
An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team.
Strong knowledge of SQL
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering OR equivalent work experience
Experience and/or interest in growth engineering
5+ years of working experience in a similar field/environment

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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.

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Jennifer Sutton

Senior Director, Diversity, Equity & Belonging

GALVANIZING PROGRESS

A team that practices what they preach

Sutton steers a data-driven DEB strategy anchored by four pillars: workforce equity, workplace belonging, responsible citizenship and product inclusion. She embraces authenticity and champions uncomfortable but necessary conversations. “If we’re standing for anti-racist beliefs in our society, we need to be sure that none of those biases show up at work, in how we assess talent and as we build our business model," she said.

We truly believe that when people show up as their true selves and can lean in, it makes us a more innovative organization where we can move more quickly and ultimately be a stronger business.

Jamie Lancaster

Workplace Events Manager

FUELING CONNECTIONS

Uniting colleagues through shared passions

Lancaster works with Instacart ERGS through his events-focused role. He also co-leads its LGBTQIA+ ERG, Rainbow Carrots. “We’ve made efforts towards allyship, inclusivity and amplifying intersectional voices of the LGBTQIA+ community,” he said. Pride Month events (themed “Community: Connectedness in our now Virtual World”) included a fundraiser for nonprofit Rainbow Railroad, a Gin and Gender class, and guest speakers.

My involvement with the Rainbow Carrots ERG has given me the opportunity to influence the voice of LGBTQIA+ community on a corporate level and educate others in meaningful ways — providing a list of actionable items that speak to the difference between advocacy and allyship.

Xiao Guo

Director of Engineering

INVESTING IN OTHERS

A culture that is empowering for all

“I am passionate about empowering, mentoring and uplifting women in tech,” Guo said. A co-lead of Instacart’s largest ERG, Women@, she curated programming for Women’s History Month that included leadership talks and a “Rock Your Review” workshop. Additionally, she launched and leads the ERG’s engineering mentorship program aimed at sharpening participants’ technical skills and fueling career progression.

Many women and allies have mentored me throughout my career. I want to pay this mentorship forward and pass it on to the next generation of women in tech.

What are Instacart Perks + Benefits

Instacart Benefits Overview

Health & Wellbeing
At Instacart we offer generous employer contributions to healthcare for comprehensive medical, dental, vision and mental health. From flu-shot clinics to “take what you need” time off, we provide a holistic approach to supporting our employees' physical and emotional well being.

Family
We believe in supporting every parent within the Instacart family. Paid parental leave, flexible schedules, a grocery credit, and sweet baby swag are offered to new parents. We aim to support parents returning to work with on-site Mother’s Rooms, our Parents @ ERG, and events like Bring Your Child to Work Day.

Food
We donut take food (or food puns) lightly at here Instacart. From giving all employees a free Instacart Express membership to celebrating milestones and cultural heritage months with food, to hosting a monthly AMA with our CEO called "the Scoop" (featuring scoops of ice cream), food is baked into our daily lives.

Culture

Volunteer in local community

Our social impact program, Instacart Serves, aims to nourish our communities by helping to remove barriers to food access and enrich the lives of our communities through an annual volunteer week.

Partners with nonprofits

Instacart is committed to supporting the communities we serve and we are proud to team up with our giving partner Feeding America to combat food insecurity.

OKR operational model

Open office floor plan

Flexible work schedule

As a company, we’ve adopted a set of guidelines for managers to help accommodate caregivers on their teams including offering flexible schedules and extra time blocks throughout the day.

Diversity

Mandated unconscious bias training

We require all Instacart employees to complete a mandatory unconscious bias training. Our employee resource groups have also partnered together to launch a diversity and training program.

Diversity employee resource groups

At Instacart, we have five active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs): Nightshades (our Black ERG), Rainbow Carrots (our LGBTQ+ ERG), Saźon (our Latinx ERG), Parents@, and Women@.

Hiring practices that promote diversity

Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Disability insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Wellness programs

Team workouts

Mental health benefits

Financial & Retirement

401(K)

Company equity

Charitable contribution matching

Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits

Generous parental leave

We offer 12 weeks of paid parental leave for employees who become parents (through birth, adoption, or foster care) to support them and their families as they take on their new role as a parent.

Family medical leave

Adoption Assistance

We provide Family Planning benefits for all types of families, including but not limited to fertility planning, surrogacy support, adoption services, care navigation, and reproductive technology.

Company sponsored family events

We partner with our Parents@ community to host virtual events and programming for families such as cooking classes, arts and craft kits delivered, and magic shows over Zoom.

Vacation & Time Off Benefits

Unlimited vacation policy

Paid holidays

Office Perks

Commuter benefits

Company-sponsored outings

Free daily meals

Free snacks and drinks

Company-sponsored happy hours

Relocation assistance

Home-office stipend for remote employees

We have a $600 stipend for outfitting your home office, as well as monthly phone & internet reimbursement.

Professional Development Benefits

Job training & conferences

We offer free Udemy subscriptions for every employee to allow them to develop new skills and foster existing ones by enrolling in a wide array of courses. We also have a dedicated L&D Team.

Tuition reimbursement

Lunch and learns

Promote from within

Online course subscriptions available

Customized development tracks

Additional Perks + Benefits

Our programming and benefits are constantly evolving to meet the needs of our growing team. We introduce new benefits each year, and add new programs to celebrate cultural heritage, give back to the community, and celebrate our teams.

Our Instacart Serves social impact program is one of the most active across the company. We aim to nourish our communities by helping to remove barriers to food access and enriching the lives of our communities through an annual volunteer week of service, grocery donations, disaster relief, and giving campaigns.

The Instacart Serves program focuses support across 3 main areas:

- Food Insecurity: The majority of our philanthropic support is dedicated to helping to remove barriers to food access and hunger relief with our primary giving partner, Feeding America. We recognize that food insecurity disproportionately affects diverse communities and we also work to raise awareness for this growing inequity.

- Supporting Traditionally Marginalized Communities: We are committed to standing up for injustice and equity, supporting organizations that challenge economic justice, and uplifting traditionally marginalized communities.

- Disaster Relief: In the event of natural disasters which severely impact the communities we serve, we provide disaster relief through financial or grocery donations to centers and organizations supporting evacuees and first responders.

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