Senior Software Engineer, Ads

We're transforming the grocery industry

At Instacart, 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. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. 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 has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.

Instacart is a Flex First team

There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.

Are you ready to take your development skills to the next level? We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Ads team. You’ll play a critical role in the evolution of our Ads suite and help build world-class reporting solutions across various platforms, ensuring that advertisers and retailers receive timely, accurate, and actionable data insights. By working closely with Product Designers, Product Managers, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and other cross-functional partners, you’ll contribute to the advancement of our Ads suite and guarantee a seamless flow of data to our users.

The Instacart Ads team is at the forefront of refining our Ads products and supporting infrastructure, so your work will directly enhance our capability to process petabyte-scale data and deliver reports essential for billing, strategic decision-making, and partner management.

Our products are used by millions of people every year. To meet–and exceed–expectations we are rapidly improving and modernizing our ads platform, helping raise the quality bar for our products across the entire organization. Sound exciting? Keep reading.

The Ads Solutions Team is a vibrant collective of engineers pioneering new advertising formats at Instacart. Tasked with incubating and scaling cutting-edge ad solutions, our team fuels revenue growth and sustains vital partnerships within the Instacart Retail Media Network. As a beacon of innovation, our suite of display advertising offerings empowers brands to engage and educate consumers.

About the Job

As a Senior Engineer, you'll be integral to a full-stack team driving end-to-end development from client to backend. Known for agility, our team values rapid iteration alongside quality and craft:

• 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.

About You

• 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.

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