Build and ship full SEO and AEO features end-to-end with minimal oversight, from development through experimentation and rollout.
Design, build, and ship high-quality full-stack features that enhance search engine visibility, AI answer engine performance, and organic traffic with a strong sense of urgency and ownership.
Apply technical best practices to deliver performant, observable, and cost-aware code that improves traditional search rankings, LLM visibility, and user experience.
Contribute to data pipelines for SEO and AEO data ingestion, transformation, and delivery, applying simple, reusable abstractions to keep the system healthy as it grows.
Collaborate with product managers, designers, and marketing partners to translate user needs into technical requirements, surface trade-offs, and deliver on shared goals.

2–4 years of software engineering experience with proficiency in React, Ruby, Python, PostgreSQL, and SQL.
Demonstrated ability to build and launch complete features end-to-end with minimal oversight, including development, experimentation, and production rollout.
Experience with distributed systems and data engineering — designing pipelines, optimizing schemas, and ensuring data quality — with exposure to Airflow or DBT.
Ability to write performant code and improve system observability through logging and metrics, identifying and resolving bottlenecks as they arise.
Strong product mindset with the ability to translate user needs into technical requirements and understand how your work impacts business metrics.
Effective communicator who can collaborate across marketing, product, and engineering partners to align on requirements and deliver solutions.

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.

Software Engineer II, Technical Search Visibility

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