About the role

Role overview

As a Senior Software Engineer II (Core Experience) at Instacart, you will improve the backend systems that power a seamless digital grocery shopping journey. You’ll help enhance content discoverability and purchase processes, and work to build backend architectures that support recommendation and personalization.

Team context

You’ll be part of the Core Experience organization, including the Order Quality team. The team owns key post-checkout capabilities such as:

Intelligent replacement algorithms
Real-time order status updates
Customer communication via SMS, push notifications, and live activity tracking
Features like item summary pages, chat, cancellations and rescheduling, and post-order feedback

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain high-quality backend applications
Lead backend roadmap efforts with focus on scalability and reliability
Innovate on new features that improve the customer shopping experience
Own major product components, ensuring they meet internal and external standards
Collaborate cross-functionally (ML engineers, product teams, data scientists) to drive consensus and outcomes
Plan and execute projects end-to-end: from inception through deployment and maintenance

Requirements

5+ years of backend development experience with a strong delivery track record
Proficiency in backend languages (text begins with Ruby but is truncated)

Nice-to-haves

Experience partnering with ML/data teams to enable data-driven backend features (implied by collaboration focus)

About Instacart

Instacart is a grocery delivery platform that connects millions of customers with the food and household goods they need. The company focuses on building reliable, flexible experiences for shoppers while also enabling intelligent, data-driven shopping capabilities such as recommendations, replacements, and order quality improvements.

Senior Software Engineer II, Core Experience

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