# Senior Engineering Manager, Core Picking

**Company**: Instacart
**Location**: Canada - Remote (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: CAN$229,000-$241,500 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Instacart, we're transforming the grocery industry by building a picking technology platform that powers the fulfillment needs of the world's largest retailers and millions of customers.

As a Senior Engineering Manager for the Core Picking team at Instacart, you will lead the engineering team responsible for our core shopper picking experiences, supporting our mission to build the picking technology platform required to meet the fulfillment needs of the world's largest retailers and millions of customers.

## Responsibilities

- Define, communicate, and drive the technical vision and strategy for the team that supports the product strategy and key bets for the company, including new technical investments.

- Drive high-quality execution of key business outcomes of the team by overseeing the roadmap and enabling technical and product decisions.

- Create best practices for production services, ensuring an exemplary enterprise-grade experience for retailers.

- Lead, coach, and develop a team of 10+ engineers building the best in-class picking experience for retailers and shoppers.

- Lead the recruitment and hiring processes to build a high-performing team.

## Requirements

- Proven track record as a hands-on technical leader, preferably at a Staff+ level in a similar industry.

- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing engineers, with a track record leading teams of 15+ and delivering complex consumer or enterprise-facing products.

- Ability to craft and execute strategic engineering roadmaps that align with business objectives.

- Highly structured and proactive communication capabilities.

- Experience in staffing, mentoring, and leading engineering teams to success.

- Effective cross-functional leadership. Experience working with product managers, EM peers, and senior ICs.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience leading multiple teams or managing managers, including scaling a team from early stages to 10+ engineers.

- Prior experience in managing engineering teams that oversee mission-critical business systems.

- Experience building enterprise-grade software systems.

- Technical depth with Ruby on Rails, Go, Swift, and/or Kotlin.

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Ruby on Rails
- Go
- Swift
- Kotlin
- strategic engineering roadmaps
- cross-functional leadership

### Nice to have
- leading multiple teams
- managing managers
- enterprise-grade software systems

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