Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Instacart is transforming the grocery industry by providing essential services that customers rely on for their groceries and household goods. They are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their Ads team, where the role involves leading the design and implementation of new ad formats and collaborating across teams to enhance their Ads suite and support infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of new ad formats
- Collaborate across teams and across functions to set product requirements and long-term strategies
- Uphold and elevate technical standards, ensuring superior code quality, test coverage, and system performance
- Embrace cross-functional roles and tackle challenges beyond just code to amplify product outcomes
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent proven industry experience (4+ years)
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- Comprehensive understanding of distributed systems, proven experience with data processing technologies such as DBT and Airflow and common web frameworks such as Rails
- Highly proficient with SQL, capable of writing and reviewing complex queries for data analysis and debugging
- You can design for scale with the entire system in mind
- Solid communicator, comfortable seeking and receiving feedback
- Strong analytical and debugging skills
- Strong sense of ownership working with a large codebase and diverse suite of products
- A collaborative mindset to be able to partner with engineers, designers and PM's from multiple teams to co-create impactful solutions while supporting system contributions
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present ideas clearly and influence key stakeholders at the manager, director, and VP level
- Prior work experience in the digital advertising industry
- Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Hive or Kafka, and with both streaming and batching data pipelines
- Proven experience with distributed system design
- Strong general programming and algorithm skills
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy in the implementation, keen eye for edge cases and code reviews
- Data driven mindset
Benefits
- Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.
- This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
- Instacart is a Flex First team
- 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.
Company Overview
Instacart is an online grocery platform that offers same-day delivery and pickup services for retailers and consumers. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.instacart.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Instacart has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 23 in 2026, 152 in 2025, 173 in 2024, 109 in 2023, 159 in 2022, 170 in 2021, 59 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.