Instacart is transforming the grocery industry by providing essential services for grocery delivery. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Single Retailer Experience team, focusing on delivering high-visibility consumer features and collaborating with various teams to enhance the shopping experience.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, develop, and retain a team of 10+ software engineers; set clear goals, grow careers, and foster an inclusive, high-performance culture
- Own multi-quarter roadmaps for the Single Retailer Experience, delivering measurable product impact, reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency
- Partner with adjacent Shopping Experience teams to design platform capabilities and APIs that enable rapid experimentation, long-term maintainability, and adoption across stakeholders
- Engage deeply in technical execution—review designs and code, guide architectural decisions, define SLOs, establish observability standards, and oversee on-call and incident response
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Data Science to prioritize impact, land cross-org initiatives, and deliver consumer features such as Nutrition Scores, allergen indicators, and healthier alternatives
- Prioritize and manage inbound requests across a horizontal surface area; create clarity, sequence complex programs, and deliver outcomes in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities
Requirements:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing teams of 8+ software engineers
- Proven track record leading full-stack teams that build and operate consumer-facing products and high-scale, low-latency APIs and distributed services
- Hands-on experience with service-oriented architectures, API design (REST and/or gRPC), and data modeling
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Go, Java, or Python) and experience building services on a major cloud provider (e.g., AWS or GCP)
- Demonstrated ability to define and deliver a technical roadmap, align stakeholders, and ship cross-functional projects end-to-end
- Experience hiring, coaching, and performance-managing engineers, with a commitment to building an inclusive, collaborative team environment
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with modern AI developer tools and integrating AI into consumer products and developer workflows
- Experience building for iOS, Android, and/or modern web frameworks (e.g., React)
- Technical experience with one or more of: Ruby on Rails, Python, Golang, Postgres, Redis, AWS
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field