Senior Software Engineer II – Enterprise Foundations

atInstacartRemoteUS flagUnited StatesFull-timeFull-stack EngineerSenior$192k – $242.5k/year

Posted Oct 20

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

πŸ“‹ Description

β€’ Take ownership of multi-quarter integration initiatives from start to finish, encompassing problem identification, design, implementation, rollout, and the deprecation of legacy paths.

β€’ Steer technical direction by creating Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), proposing alternatives, making trade-off choices, and leading design evaluations.

β€’ Manage vendor and cross-team integrations while ensuring observability, fallback behaviors, and establishing cost/latency guardrails.

β€’ Develop reusable patterns, frameworks, templates, documentation for system overviews, and migration runbooks.

β€’ Engage in hands-on work as a senior individual contributor while enhancing design, code quality, observability, and operational standards.

β€’ Mentor junior engineers and delegate tasks while maintaining technical ownership.

β€’ Collaborate with teams such as Connected Stores, Professional Services, Commerce, Search, Data Engineering, and Machine Learning.


⛳️ Requirements

β€’ Over 7 years of experience in backend software engineering.

β€’ Proven experience managing intricate, multi-quarter projects from inception to completion as a senior individual contributor.

β€’ Capability to serve as the technical Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for cross-team initiatives.

β€’ Experience in designing and delivering distributed systems and production integrations that span multiple services, teams, or external partners.

β€’ Strong expertise in backend technologies such as Ruby/Rails, Python, Go, or similar languages.

β€’ Familiarity with relational databases, distributed data systems, and cloud infrastructures like AWS or GCP.

β€’ Proven ability to create ERDs, design documentation, runbooks, and reusable technical frameworks.

β€’ Capacity to thrive in ambiguous, rapidly growing environments.

β€’ Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.


🏝️ Benefits

β€’ Equity grant for new hires.

β€’ Annual equity refresh grants.

β€’ Flexible work location options: home, office, or coffee shop.

β€’ Regular in-person events.

β€’ Competitive compensation and benefits package.

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