Description
At Instacart, we're transforming the grocery industry by building technology that helps people access the food they love while enabling retailers, brands, and shoppers to thrive.
We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Enterprise AI team and help build reliable, scalable AI-powered solutions. You'll work with engineers, product partners, data scientists, and stakeholders across the organization to turn complex business needs into high-quality products and platforms.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and operate scalable software systems that power Enterprise AI products and capabilities.
- Translate ambiguous business and technical problems into clear engineering solutions, making thoughtful tradeoffs across quality, speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
- Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, machine learning engineers, and partner teams to deliver AI-enabled experiences that address meaningful business needs.
- Own projects through the full software development lifecycle, from technical design and implementation through launch, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Contribute to engineering excellence through code reviews, design discussions, automated testing, observability, documentation, and operational best practices.
- Help shape the technical direction of the Enterprise AI team by identifying opportunities, evaluating new approaches, and sharing knowledge with teammates and cross-functional partners.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least five years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Python, Java, Go, or C++.
- Experience designing, implementing, testing, and troubleshooting distributed or highly scalable software systems.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners to define requirements and deliver software from concept through production.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate technical decisions clearly, participate in constructive code and design reviews, and take ownership of complex projects.
Benefits
- Highly market-competitive compensation
- New hire equity grant
- Annual refresh grants
- Flexible remote work policy