Senior Software Engineer, Fulfillment

Instacart is a grocery technology company that helps customers access groceries and household goods while supporting flexible earning opportunities for personal shoppers. The Senior Software Engineer, Fulfillment will design, build, and implement scalable software solutions for fulfillment operations, optimize systems and SQL queries, develop architectural improvements, and use AI toolsets to accelerate development and improve engineering quality.

Responsibilities:

• Developing highly scalable software using innovative computer science and software engineering principles while ensuring proper protocols are in place to rapidly roll out upgrades and new features
• Analyzing and optimizing expensive SQL queries; executing ongoing testing and analysis of current systems, including independent performance analysis, diagnosis, and troubleshooting
• Determining design solutions to problematic programming; analyzing and refining complex architectures and proposing new systems to improve delivery and operational excellence
• Leveraging AI toolsets to accelerate development processes and establishing new standards to improve the engineering quality of partner-centric products
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or foreign equivalent)
• 2 years of experience in the job offered or related
• 2 years of experience working with Java, Ruby, Python, or similar programming languages
• 2 years of experience working with MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, or similar data management systems
• 2 years of experience working with client/server architectures and application architectures
• 2 years of experience working with large codebases on cross-functional teams
• 2 years of experience employing advanced AI toolsets to accelerate development processes
• 2 years of experience deriving insights from complex data sets
• Note: In lieu of a Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or foreign equivalent) and 2 years of experience in the job offered or related, employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or foreign equivalent) and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related