Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Instacart is transforming the grocery industry and is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to join their Self-Serve Productivity team. The role involves building and extending Portal, a central hub for data, while collaborating with various teams to enhance productivity through self-serve tools.
Responsibilities
- You will be part of a small team with a large amount of ownership and surface area, given that the tooling is used by the entire company
- You will lead frontend architecture and product execution on Portal, while contributing across the stack where needed (Python services, data pipelines, APIs)
- You will have the freedom to suggest and drive new initiatives — including how Portal evolves as the unified data home base at Instacart
- You are expected to mentor other team members and be a champion of engineering excellence, particularly around frontend craft, performance, and UX quality
- You will work closely with other teams (Data Science, ML, Product Eng, Infra) to understand their main pain points around data and translate them into self-serve and reliable solutions
Skills
- Self-motivation and an enjoyment for a startup environment
- A strong sense of ownership
- Strong frontend expertise — deep experience with React and TypeScript, with a track record of shipping polished, performant product UI in a large codebase
- Comfort working fullstack — able to extend backend services (Python) and reason about APIs, data models, and pipelines as needed
- Strong knowledge of SQL and familiarity with common data infrastructure technologies (Python, Airflow, Snowflake, dbt) in a production environment
- Experience working with a large codebase on a cross-functional team
- An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
- A product mindset — you care about the experience your tools create, not just the systems behind them
- 7+ years of working experience in a similar field/environment
- Experience building internal developer tools, data tools, or other 'tools for technical users' products
- Familiarity with data catalog, lineage, or metadata systems (e.g., Amundsen, DataHub, OpenMetadata)
- Experience leading frontend architecture decisions or design system work
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, OR equivalent work experience
Benefits
- Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward.
- 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.
- This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
- Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
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