Senior Software Engineer II, Marketing Tech (Remote)

Instacart; Canada; On-site; CAD 196,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Instacart is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the Paid MarTech pod, shaping the technical roadmap and making architecture decisions for scalable, observable, and cost-efficient systems.

You will partner with senior Product and Marketing leaders, mentor engineers, and drive cross-team initiatives to advance marketing technology across the organization. This is a remote role focused on Canada with competitive compensation and equity opportunities.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of software engineering experience with demonstrated expertise leading technical roadmaps and making architectural decisions that impact team-level systems.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python with proven ability to design and implement reusable abstractions, frameworks, and patterns adopted across multiple projects.
• Deep technical knowledge of building scalable, high-throughput systems with comprehensive observability, cost efficiency, and security considerations.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with senior Product and Marketing leaders, significantly influencing product roadmap through identification of strategic technical opportunities.
• Proven track record of enhancing team productivity through process improvements, tooling development, and mentorship of senior engineers.
• Excellent communication and influence skills with ability to drive execution of cross-team and cross-functional initiatives while navigating organizational context and dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Drive the team's technical roadmap and architectural decisions, balancing short and long-term investments to build reusable, scalable systems that serve current and future marketing needs.
• Enhance developer productivity by evolving processes, tools, and abstractions that improve team efficiency, system extensibility, and code quality across the codebase.
• Lead team-wide initiatives and propose strategic work on behalf of engineering management, partnering directly with senior Product and Marketing leaders on product design and technical decisions.
• Champion advanced observability, resilience (including chaos engineering and disaster recovery), cost optimization, and security-by-design principles across all team projects.
• Mentor engineers up to L5, act as a force multiplier through well-documented processes, and proactively resolve conflicts that block execution across teams.

Skills

Python

Software architecture

Observability

Cost optimization

Mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Job description

Instacart is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the Paid MarTech pod, shaping the technical roadmap and making architecture decisions for scalable, observable, and cost-efficient systems.

You will partner with senior Product and Marketing leaders, mentor engineers, and drive cross-team initiatives to advance marketing technology across the organization. This is a remote role focused on Canada with competitive compensation and equity opportunities.