At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead technical projects and enhance marketing technology systems for a transformative grocery platform.
- Company: Join Instacart, a leader in grocery delivery with a mission to connect people through food.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible work options, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with mentorship opportunities and a focus on innovation.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on marketing technology while working with a dynamic team.
- Qualifications: 8-12 years of software engineering experience and expertise in Python.
The predicted salary is between 118800 - 145200 $ per year.
We're transforming the grocery industry at Instacart, where 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. 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 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 favourite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events.
Overview
The Marketing Enablement & Technology (MET) team sits within Instacart's Marketing organization, building the systems, APIs, and data pipelines powering Instacart's Paid Marketing channels—one of our most substantial growth levers. Operating at the intersection of Marketing, Product, and Engineering, we own the platforms behind campaign feeds, audience targeting, event pipelines, and QA automation.
We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Paid MarTech pod—driving the team’s technical roadmap, making key architectural decisions for reusability and scalability, and enhancing team productivity through process evolution and tooling improvements. You’ll lead cross-team initiatives, partner directly with senior Product and Marketing leaders on strategic decisions, and serve as a domain expert for marketing technology across the organization.
About the Job
- Drive the team’s technical roadmap and architectural decisions, balancing short and long-term investments to build reusable, scalable systems that serve current and future marketing needs.
- Enhance developer productivity by evolving processes, tools, and abstractions that improve team efficiency, system extensibility, and code quality across the codebase.
- Lead team-wide initiatives and propose strategic work on behalf of engineering management, partnering directly with senior Product and Marketing leaders on product design and technical decisions.
- Champion advanced observability, resilience (including chaos engineering and disaster recovery), cost optimization, and security-by-design principles across all team projects.
- Mentor engineers up to L5, act as a force multiplier through well-documented processes, and proactively resolve conflicts that block execution across teams.
About You
- Minimum Qualifications: 8–12 years of software engineering experience with demonstrated expertise leading technical roadmaps and making architectural decisions that impact team-level systems.
- Expert-level proficiency in Python with proven ability to design and implement reusable abstractions, frameworks, and patterns adopted across multiple projects.
- Deep technical knowledge of building scalable, high-throughput systems with comprehensive observability, cost efficiency, and security considerations.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with senior Product and Marketing leaders, significantly influencing product roadmap through identification of strategic technical opportunities.
- Proven track record of enhancing team productivity through process improvements, tooling development, and mentorship of senior engineers.
- Excellent communication and influence skills with ability to drive execution of cross-team and cross-functional initiatives while navigating organizational context and dependencies.
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