Senior Software Engineer - Core Experience, Growth

Instacart · Canada - Remote (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only)Remotesenior

In short

▸Ingeniero de software senior que construye y gestiona servicios backend para experiencias de cupones en Instacart.
▸Día a día: desarrollas APIs, trabajas en experimentos A/B, mejoras rendimiento y confiabilidad de sistemas distribuidos.
▸Destacado: el rol impacta directamente en los ingresos de la compañía a través de la estrategia de cupones.

Proficiency in written and spoken English is required.

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What they ask for

✓4+ años de experiencia en ingeniería de software con enfoque en backend.
✓Dominio de al menos un lenguaje y marco backend moderno (Go, Python, Java, Ruby, Node.js).
✓Experiencia comprobada en diseño e operación de APIs RESTful o gRPC y microservicios en producción.
✓Conocimiento sólido en bases de datos relacionales (PostgreSQL, MySQL) y almacenamiento en caché/NoSQL (Redis, DynamoDB).
✓Capacidad para escribir y optimizar consultas SQL.
✓Colaboración efectiva con equipos de Producto y Ciencia de Datos para construir características basadas en datos.

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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. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview Instacart’s Growth Lifecycle Incentives team builds coupon experiences, one of the company’s core revenue drivers. We own the end-to-end experience for coupon storing, serving, ranking, and merchandising in app, web and CRM, partnering closely with Product, Data Science and Machine Learning Engineers, Retailer Managers to deliver features that make the coupon more valuable and accessible. We’re looking for Senior Software Engineers to design and build backend services and user-facing experiences. You’ll join a team of 19 engineers operating in a fast-paced environment. If you thrive on tackling complex problems, balancing new feature work with retailer-driven requests and technical debt, and rolling up your sleeves to deliver impact, this role is for you. About the Job • Design, build, and own backend services, APIs, and data integrations that power coupon merchandising. • Implement and iterate on experiments end-to-end—partnering with Product and Data Science to ideate, launch, measure, and refine A/B tests that move key metrics. • Identify and execute codebase and product optimizations that improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across distributed systems. • Collaborate cross-functionally to define roadmaps, success metrics, and guardrails; communicate tradeoffs clearly in a fast-paced, experiment-driven environment. • Uphold high engineering standards through code reviews, testing, documentation, and thoughtful architecture decisions that balance speed with quality. • Partner with frontend and mobile engineers to deliver cohesive, high-quality experiences across web, iOS, and Android. About You Minimum Qualifications • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend development. • Proficiency in at least one modern backend language and framework (e.g., Go, Python/Django or Flask/FastAPI, Java/Spring, Ruby/Rails, or Node.js/Express). • Hands-on experience designing and operating RESTful or gRPC APIs and microservices in production. • Strong working knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and caching/NoSQL stores (e.g., Redis, DynamoDB); ability to write and optimize SQL. • Experience collaborating with Product and Data Science to build data-informed features and iterate based on experiment results.</li

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