Instacart is looking to advance its B2B experience and capabilities to grow its massive segment of business users, which currently includes over 1 million businesses. The company aims to build a suite of tailored capabilities for business needs, improve UX flows for business user acquisition and spend, and develop new applications to address diverse business ordering needs.
Requirements
- Expertise in one or more backend languages (ex: Ruby, Java, Python, etc.)
- Strong technical acumen and technical writing skills, with the ability to create high quality technical design docs that result in maintainable and scalable architectures/systems
- Strong analytical and debugging skills
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy in coding implementation, keen eye for edge cases and code reviews.
- Expertise in Ruby with a solid understanding of Rails
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog
- Prior work experience in the B2B and/or e-commerce space
Responsibilities
- Holistically own and lead major workstreams within the team, from inception of a project to timely and quality launches.
- Produce high quality technical artifacts (design docs, runbooks, etc.) in the process of executing on projects
- Contribute high-quality code and code reviews for the team
- Participate in the on-call rotation and proactively identify/address relevant production issues
- Elevate the team overall through mentoring other engineers and identifying/driving areas to improve effectiveness of the team.
- Collaborate across teams and cross functional stakeholders to foster a unified approach to product development, facilitating consensus, and driving effective outcomes.
- Influence the direction and roadmap of the team through blending strong technical vision and product sense
Other
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent proven industry experience
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- Strong sense of ownership and entrepreneurial spirit to deliver launches/results
- Strong product sense and willing product thinker who is excited to think deeply about the areas that will advance the team forward and influence the roadmap of the team
- 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
