Sr. Engineering Manager, IC App Cart and Checkout
We're transforming the grocery industry
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
Creating the world’s best shopping experience for our customers requires a variety of skills from good product sense, to deep understanding of the complex technical systems running our massive product catalog. The challenge of this team lies in balancing and driving experiences for our customers both in creating new features and also in creating new infrastructure. The Storefront team is multi-disciplinary in that we work on machine learning services, we work on iOS, Android, front-end web, and Rails, and our architecture is widely depended upon throughout the company.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The mission of the Instacart App Shop team is to help people nourish themselves and their loved ones by creating the world’s best grocery shopping experience. We do this by improving the core shopping experience for customers to solve more, or to better solve, their needs! Those needs can be as wide ranging as, “I need cheese, but I don’t know what kind”, to, “I need this app to load on a 3g connection while on the subway so I can feed my family on time tonight.”
ABOUT THE JOB
- You will lead a team of full stack Engineers (iOS, Android, front-end, Rails) in both the development of features and of infrastructure/architecture.
- You will help prioritize work for your team, making difficult tradeoffs on design based on business constraints, ensuring on-time deliverables and high-quality software.
- You will provide hands-on technical management, guidance, and support including system/design/code review, and ultimately own the health of the systems your team builds.
- Participate in interviewing, hiring decisions, on-boarding, and mentoring of new engineers with the goal of quickly making them productive members of your team.
- Develop a team culture of ownership that reinforces the core values of Instacart!
ABOUT YOU
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of experience leading and developing a team of Software Engineers
- The ability to balance business needs, a sense of urgency, and shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
- Knowledge of best industry practices for building large scale and highly reliable consumer applications
- Strong analytical skills and a sense of ownership
- Strong product sense and care for user experience
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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.