Staff Software Engineer, Orders Platform — Remote

Triwill Group; United States; Remote; USD 221,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire equity grant

Annual refresh grants

Job summary

Instacart is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead foundational platform initiatives on the Orders Platform team. You will shape the architectural strategy for order lifecycle systems that handle hundreds of millions of transactions annually across customers, shoppers, retailers, and partners.

You will drive reliability, correctness, and scalability of order workflows, partner with cross-functional teams, and help other product teams build durable platform capabilities at scale.

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing, developing, and operating large-scale backend/platform systems.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives end to end (architecture, implementation, rollout).
• Strong foundation in distributed systems, APIs, and idempotent workflows.
• Proficiency with Go, Java, or Python and both SQL and NoSQL data stores.
• Experience on-call ownership, SLIs/SLOs, performance tuning, and incident reviews.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate design, implementation, or reviews.
• Excellent communication with senior engineers, Product, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-team initiatives to improve reliability, scalability, and correctness of the Orders platform.
• Define technical strategy for the order lifecycle, including state machines and service contracts.
• Architect and evolve event-driven workflows for core order flows (creation, updates, payments, refunds).
• Partner with Payments, Fulfillment, Catalog, Ads, Fraud, Data, and Infra to deliver durable platform capabilities.
• Modernize platform with better consistency models, multi-tenant abstractions, and secure integrations.
• Design platform capabilities to support agentic commerce and AI-driven workflows.
• Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and contribute hands-on to critical code paths.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Go/Java/Python

Data stores (SQL/NoSQL)

On-call / SLOs

AI-assisted development tools

Cross-functional collaboration

Architecture leadership

Event-driven patterns

Security/compliance awareness

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Job description

Instacart is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead foundational platform initiatives on the Orders Platform team. You will shape the architectural strategy for order lifecycle systems that handle hundreds of millions of transactions annually across customers, shoppers, retailers, and partners.

You will drive reliability, correctness, and scalability of order workflows, partner with cross-functional teams, and help other product teams build durable platform capabilities at scale.