Senior Software Engineer - E3 - Instawork Robotics

Instawork; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading labor marketplace is seeking a versatile Senior/Staff Engineer in Bengaluru. The role involves full-stack development and managing cloud infrastructures. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience, extensive knowledge of distributed systems, and proficiency in frameworks like Python and React. This position offers the opportunity to impact the robotics revolution and contribute to AI-driven solutions while working with a dedicated team.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Deep understanding of database internals and network constraints.
• Extensive experience with modern frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end and solve technical challenges.
• Lead technical development of Instawork Lens and Radiant.
• Manage complex AWS infrastructure and ECS services.

Skills

Full-stack development

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure (AWS)

Python

React

Tools

Django

Docker

CloudWatch

Job description

Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.

About Instawork

Instawork is the nation’s leading online labor marketplace for food services, hospitality, light industry, and logistics, connecting more than 7M skilled workers with local restaurants, hotels, warehouses, stadiums, and more. Our AI-powered platform serves thousands of businesses across more than 50 major markets in the United States and Canada. We’re not just helping fill shifts, we’re supporting local economies—and we’re just getting started! We also value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

About Instawork Robot Labs (IRL)

Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI.

The Role

We are looking for a highly versatile Senior/Staff Engineer with rock-solid fundamentals who can confidently tackle any problem across the tech stack. As a key engineering leader in our Bengaluru hub, you will own the technical execution for massive‑scale physical AI training data, building out core systems like Instawork Lens (our global data collection platform) and Instawork Prism (our dedicated QA platform). You are a generalist at heart—comfortable designing a clean user experience in React and diving deep into AWS to tune heavy video transcoding pipelines.

What You’ll Do

• Full‑Stack Versatility: Seamlessly transition between frontend, backend, and infrastructure. Own features end‑to‑end, solving whatever technical challenge stands in the way of shipping.
• Platform Ownership: Lead the technical development of Instawork Lens and Instawork Radiant, ensuring high‑throughput data enrichment, labeling, and continuous quality assurance loops.
• Infrastructure & Video Pipelines: Architect and scale our cloud environments. Manage complex AWS infrastructure and ECS services for video transcoding, ensuring deep observability with precise telemetry across CPU, memory, network, and disk IOPS.
• Architect for Scale: Design and optimize data pipelines capable of securely processing petabytes of global video and telemetry data without bottlenecking.
• AI‑Leveraged Engineering: Use agentic models as a force multiplier to ship faster, relying on your deep engineering fundamentals to guide the AI, spot bad patterns, and make the final architectural decisions.
• Cross‑Functional Mentorship: Act as a technical pillar for the team. Guide mid‑ and senior‑level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and architectural discussions to raise the bar for engineering excellence.

Who You Are

• Master of Fundamentals: 6+ years of software engineering experience. Deep understanding of distributed systems, database internals, and network constraints, and write clean, maintainable code (coding 80% of the time).
• True Generalist: Extensive experience with full‑stack development (Python, Django, React, or similar modern frameworks) and willingness to learn whatever language or tool is needed for the job.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Chops: Hands‑on experience designing scalable backend systems and managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, ECS/Docker, CloudWatch), especially for data‑heavy or high‑throughput applications.
• Startup Mindset: Thrive in ambiguous, fast‑paced, 0‑1 environments. Act like an owner, practice high‑velocity decision‑making, and ship product quickly without sacrificing quality.
• Mission‑Driven: Genuinely excited about the robotics revolution and want to build the human advantage that powers it.

Our Values

• Empathy, Trust & Candor: Build trust through honest and direct feedback.
• Bias for Action: Practice high‑velocity decision‑making and course‑correct quickly.
• Always Be Learning: Continuously compound knowledge as AI transforms our workplace.
• Act Like an Owner: Impact Instawork only limited by courage and conviction, not job description.

Join our team to help us build something that matters! With hubs in San Francisco, Bangalore, and Chicago, and offices in New York, Phoenix, and Singapore, we’re back to working together in‑person five days a week because we believe the best ideas happen when great people collaborate face‑to‑face. Ready to make an impact? Learn more at www.instawork.com/about.