Senior Software Engineer, Instacart Business

EngineersOfAI; Canada; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

EngineersOfAI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Instacart Business team in Canada. This role involves owning and leading major workstreams in software development, focusing on enhancing the B2B experience.

The ideal candidate should have at least 5 years of experience, a strong technical background, and a sense of ownership to drive projects from inception to deployment. You will work within a dynamic team dedicated to innovating business capabilities on Instacart.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Strong sense of ownership and entrepreneurial spirit.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead major workstreams from inception to launch.
• Influence the team's direction and roadmap.
• Produce high quality technical artifacts during projects.
• Contribute code and code reviews.
• Participate in the on-call rotation.
• Mentor other engineers and improve team effectiveness.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Ownership

Technical excellence

Product sense

Software engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Instacart Business team, you will play a pivotal role in advancing the B2B experience and capabilities of Instacart. With over 1 million businesses (from small to enterprise) who have relied on Instacart to address a variety of ordering use cases, your work will be crucial in growing this massive segment of users.

This role is for a lead engineer within the team, and it requires an individual who has a strong combination of ownership, technical excellence, and product sense. We're looking for someone who is passionate about crafting scalable software and excited to take ownership of the product development lifecycle from conception to deployment.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Instacart Business team is tasked with developing Instacart's presence in the B2B ecommerce domain. You will be joining a dynamic team that operates like a startup within Instacart, dedicated to harnessing the vast potential of business users. Our roadmap includes areas such as:

• Building a suite of capabilities tailored to meet business needs, such as team member management, team-wide insights/reporting, tax exemptions, spend controls, etc.
• Building new and improving existing UX flows to encourage creation of more business users on Instacart and more spend/adoption.
• New applications/surfaces to reach and address the ordering needs of business users in a variety of ways (ex: retailer B2B whitelabel sites, ordering from food distributors directly, etc.)

ABOUT THE JOB

• Holistically own and lead major workstreams within the team, from inception of a project to timely and quality launches.
• Influence the direction and roadmap of the team through blending strong technical vision and product sense.
• 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.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 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.