Senior Software Engineer — Marketing Tech Lead

Jackalope Digital LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Instacart is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the Paid MarTech pod within the Marketing Enablement & Technology team. You will drive the technical roadmap, make architectural decisions for reusable, scalable systems, and raise team productivity through tooling improvements.

You will partner with senior Product and Marketing leaders to shape product design, champion observability and security, and mentor engineers up to L5 to unblock cross-team initiatives.

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

Mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Job description

Instacart is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the Paid MarTech pod within the Marketing Enablement & Technology team. You will drive the technical roadmap, make architectural decisions for reusable, scalable systems, and raise team productivity through tooling improvements.

You will partner with senior Product and Marketing leaders to shape product design, champion observability and security, and mentor engineers up to L5 to unblock cross-team initiatives.