Description
We're transforming the grocery industry
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community.
Overview
As a Staff Software Engineer on the FoodStorm team, you will play a pivotal role in modernizing FoodStorm’s on demand ordering, catering, and prepared food platform. You’ll contribute to rearchitecting the system using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, with a focus on building efficient, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
Responsibilities
- Actively contribute to the rearchitecture of FoodStorm’s platform, focusing on scalability and maintainability through a service-oriented approach.
- Implement high-quality software solutions to enable seamless integration between FoodStorm and Instacart’s systems.
- Conduct hands-on coding, technical problem-solving, and system optimization.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers across teams to ensure alignment on technical strategy and implementation.
- Partner with the Australia-based engineering team, ensuring effective collaboration during overlapping work hours (~2 hours daily).
- Provide technical mentorship to peers, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
- Help identify and implement best practices to improve the team’s efficiency and system performance.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable systems and distributed architectures.
- Proficiency in a modern programming language such as Python, Java, C#, or similar.
- Strong hands-on experience with backend development and system integration.
- Proven ability to solve complex technical problems in a collaborative environment.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with experience working across time zones (including ~2-hour overlap with Australia).
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability for delivering high-quality results.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with .NET Core, SOA patterns, and API integrations is a plus.
- Experience working on system modernization or large-scale technical migrations (e.g., monolithic to SOA).
- Experience with front-end web development.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of grocery retail, catering, or enterprise platform technologies.
- A commitment to developing and deploying reliable, performant tools that deliver excellent partner and customer experiences.
Benefits
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location.