Job description
We’re transforming the grocery industry
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
About the Role - This role involves leading the development of strategic technical and product growth initiatives within FoodStorm’s Order Management software platform. Focusing on full-stack software and database development to build and enhance product functionality.
As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will play a critical role in enhancing our services, solving technical challenges, managing work streams and directly impacting our customers’ experience by maintaining the highest standards of our software solutions.
About the Team - Combining the culture of a scale-up with the benefits and influence of a Silicon Valley tech giant, FoodStorm provides a unique opportunity to join our 12-member engineering team based in Australia. FoodStorm, originally an Australian startup was acquired by Instacart 3 years ago which IPOed in 2024.
Role offers full time work from home or access to offices based in Melbourne, competitive salary and additional employee benefits.
About the Job
- Lead team-wide initiatives, problem solving & troubleshooting complex technical and architectural design challenges, implementing innovative solutions
- Continually apply industry best practice coding practices to the organization and assist the team with their adoption
- Facilitate collaboration with colleagues and mentoring/teaching other technical staff
- Assist in the owning and maintaining of company standards for system security, code formatting and other development documentation.
- Collaborate with the Product Manager and necessary stakeholders to assist with engineering solution designs, effort sizing and delivery of software projects
- Implement processes and practices to support the scaling of the development team & output as required.
- Aid in creation and management of team processes, growth and hiring
- Apply practical solutions to business problems by balancing time, costs, technical outcomes, security and scalability considerations
- Identify problems in other codebases in addition to your own, and collaborate with other Instacart teams.
- On-call support and incident response
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years Highly proficient web development skills in React, HTML, CSS & Javascript.
- 4+ years Highly proficient in Microsoft .NET, C#.
- 4+ years Highly proficient in Microsoft SQL Server (SQL Azure preferred), T-SQL, Tables, Views & Stored Procedures.
- 8+ years Highly proficient in Web Application Development.
- Experience with Go, Rust or Ruby frameworks
- Highly proficient in building security centric software in alignment with industry standards including OWASP
- Experience in management, deployment and scaling of cloud based services ideally the Azure Platform and AKS
- Experience in Infrastructure as code practices and tools including Terraform
- High level of business acumen with ability to consider all dimensions of business issues into solution design.
- High level of written and oral skills.
- Knowledge of scalable system design including cloud scalability.
- Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills.
- Experience in managing team members and other engineers.
