Senior Software Engineer, Logistics

Overview

About the Role

We are seeking driven backend engineers with strong ownership to come shape the next evolutions of Instacart’s fulfillment logistics. The engineer would be responsible for leading and innovating on systems and projects across this space, collaborating cross-functionally with the Shopper app teams, ML engineers, Product, and many other teams across the company. The engineer will have input into the technical vision of their space, as well as identifying new, impactful opportunities for the team to pursue.

Example projects in this space include: building a dynamic pricing system driven by geospatial signals, architecting deep learning driven routing systems, detecting shoppers taking detours and building a mechanism to add orders to existing work for shoppers.

About the Team

The Logistics & ML group is responsible for the intelligence and execution behind Instacart’s fulfillment system. The team optimizes a multi-sided marketplace to ensure customers get their orders on-time and in high quality, shoppers get efficient and fulfilling work, and retailers and consumer brands get reasonable business. The team tackles hard problems in a variety of spaces, such as matching, pricing, and geospatial, as well as foundational problems executing on a high throughput system with dynamic data.

About the Job

• ​​Architect, build, and maintain excellent backend applications with clean code.
• Spearhead the development and roadmap of our Logistics systems
• Contribute to building out cutting-edge features as part of fulfillment logistics initiatives.
• Envision new features and solutions that are inspired, considered, and forward thinking.
• Own important pieces of the product that have high visibility both internally and externally.
• Communicate and collaborate extensively across multiple teams and functions within the company to drive consensus, align goals, and achieve effective cross-functional outcomes.
• Be empowered and responsible for planning, decision making, shipping, and maintaining your surface areas.

About You

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of backend development experience with a proven track record of success.
• Expertise in backend languages, specifically Ruby or Python
• Solid understanding of Rails or Pandas
• Proven ability in rigorous unit testing and practical problem-solving.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, capable of collaborating and influencing cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in Marketplace problems
• Experience working with one or more of: geospatial and mapping problems, data pipelines or data processing, highly asynchronous systems
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog
• Experience working with databases, especially PostgreSQL