Instacart is transforming the grocery industry by building world-class reporting solutions across various platforms to ensure advertisers and retailers receive timely, accurate, and actionable data insights. The Ads Solutions Team is pioneering new advertising formats and scaling cutting-edge ad solutions to fuel revenue growth and sustain vital partnerships within the Instacart Retail Media Network.
Requirements
- Comprehensive understanding of distributed systems, proven experience with data processing technologies such as DBT and Airflow and common web frameworks such as Rails.
- Highly proficient with SQL, capable of writing and reviewing complex queries for data analysis and debugging.
- You can design for scale with the entire system in mind.
- Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Hive or Kafka, and with both streaming and batching data pipelines.
- Proven experience with distributed system design.
- Strong general programming and algorithm skills.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy in the implementation, keen eye for edge cases and code reviews.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of new ad formats.
- Uphold and elevate technical standards, ensuring superior code quality, test coverage, and system performance.
- Embrace cross-functional roles and tackle challenges beyond just code to amplify product outcomes.
- Contribute to the advancement of our Ads suite and guarantee a seamless flow of data to our users.
- Enhance our capability to process petabyte-scale data and deliver reports essential for billing, strategic decision-making, and partner management.
- Drive end-to-end development from client to backend.
- Rapidly improving and modernizing our ads platform, helping raise the quality bar for our products across the entire organization.
Other
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
- Solid communicator, comfortable seeking and receiving feedback.
- Strong analytical and debugging skills.
- Strong sense of ownership working with a large codebase and diverse suite of products.
- A collaborative mindset to be able to partner with engineers, designers and PM's from multiple teams to co-create impactful solutions while supporting system contributions.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present ideas clearly and influence key stakeholders at the manager, director, and VP level.
- Data driven mindset.
