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Senior Software Engineer II

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Senior Software Engineer II in Canada

  • Instacart
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Drive the Paid MarTech team’s technical roadmap and architectural decisions for reusable, scalable systems.
  • Improve developer productivity through processes, tools, abstractions, and code-quality practices.
  • Lead team-wide and cross-team initiatives while partnering with senior Product and Marketing leaders on strategic and technical decisions.
  • Champion observability, resilience, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and security-by-design.
  • Mentor engineers up to L5, document processes, and resolve cross-team execution blockers.
  • Establish infrastructure, tooling, coding standards, architectural patterns, and technical review processes where needed.

Requirements

  • Require 8–12 years of software engineering experience with technical roadmap and team-level architecture leadership.
  • Require expert-level Python proficiency and experience designing reusable abstractions, frameworks, and patterns adopted across projects.
  • Require deep knowledge of scalable, high-throughput systems, observability, cost efficiency, and security.
  • Require experience influencing product roadmaps through strategic technical opportunities and partnering with senior Product and Marketing leaders.
  • Require a track record of process improvement, tooling development, mentorship of senior engineers, and cross-functional execution.
  • Preferred qualifications include AI-assisted development infrastructure, ad tech and marketing technology expertise, legacy modernization, technical debt management, coding standards, architectural patterns, technical reviews, crisis consulting, and external cross-pillar collaboration.

Benefits

  • Flex First remote work arrangement allowing employees to work from home, an office, or another preferred location, with regular in-person events.
  • Hiring is currently limited to candidates in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
  • Eligible for a new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
  • Benefits offerings are provided according to Instacart’s applicable plans and policies.

Instacart

Instacart is a leading grocery technology company that partners with more than 2,200 retail banners – representing nearly 100,000 stores – to transform how people shop for the groceries they need from the retailers they trust, while creating flexible earning opportunities for shoppers. Through th...

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