Engineering Manager, Ads Measurement
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
The mission of the Ads Measurement team is to build the data and reporting foundation to communicate the value of partnering with Instacart Ads. We want to be the top choice for the CPGs (Consumer Product Goods companies) to understand how their consumers interact with their Brands worldwide. To achieve this we are building authoritative data sources for all of the CPG related metrics and providing insights to help advertisers grow their business. The team works closely with other Ads teams, Catalog, Data Engineering, Business Insights and Sales team. This team is building scalable data pipelines to aggregate and transform large volumes of data, creating a Golang service to expose it, and building business intelligence capabilities in Ads Manager to help advertisers analyze and understand data.
This team is growing rapidly, which has doubled in size in the first half of this year and is expected to maintain the same growth trajectory for the rest of the year. We are looking for Engineering Leadership in both San Francisco and Toronto.
ABOUT THE JOB
- This is a hands-on leadership position. You will be splitting your time between technical contribution and managing the team
- You will manage a team of backend and full stack engineers focused on building scalable, robust distributed systems
- You will provide hands-on technical management, guidance, and support including system/design/code review, and ultimately be responsible for the health of the systems your team builds
- You will be mentoring your team members, coaching them on career progression, and will be responsible for the health of your team
- You will work with Product, Data Science, Sales to explore what moves the needle for the business
- You will ship high quality, scalable and robust solutions with a sense of urgency.
- You will participate in interviewing, hiring decisions, on-boarding, and mentoring of new engineers with the goal of quickly making them productive members of your team.
- You will develop a team culture of ownership that reinforces the core values of Instacart!
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 strong sense of ownership
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years of experience on the technical track
- 2+ years of experience managing a team of software engineers
- A strong understanding of engineering systems and experience with backend development
- The ability to balance business needs, a sense of urgency, and shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions while improving the overall organization’s impact
- Knowledge of industry best practices for building large scale and highly reliable consumer applications
- Strong analytical skills and a sense of ownership
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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.