Senior Software Engineer II, Core Experience

Role overview

Senior Software Engineer II focused on Core Experience at Instacart. The role improves backend systems that power a seamless digital grocery journey, with an emphasis on content discoverability, purchase processes, and backend architectures that support recommendation and personalization.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-quality backend applications.
• Lead backend roadmap efforts, prioritizing scalability and reliability.
• Innovate to deliver new features that enhance the shopping experience.
• Own and lead major product components, meeting internal and external quality expectations.
• Collaborate with ML engineers, product teams, and data scientists to enable data-driven capabilities.
• Drive strategic planning and execution of projects from inception through deployment and maintenance.
• Work with the Order Quality team to support end-to-end post-checkout experiences (e.g., replacements, real-time status updates, customer communications, and feedback loops).

Team focus (Core Experience / Order Quality)

• Build intelligent replacement algorithms and real-time order status updates.
• Manage post-checkout communications via SMS, push notifications, and live activity tracking.
• Support post-checkout features such as item summary pages, chat, cancellations/rescheduling, pickup experience, and post-order feedback.

Requirements

Minimum qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience (posting cut off after this point).

Nice to have

• Not specified in the provided text.