# Engineering Manager, Order Experience

**Company:** [Instacart](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/instacart)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $192k – $243k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Backend Systems, Order Management, Checkout Architecture, E-Commerce Systems, Platform Modernization, Technical Roadmaps, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Hiring And Talent Development, Stakeholder Management, Architectural Migrations
**Posted:** 2026-07-10

> Lead a team of 8+ engineers owning Instacart's mission-critical checkout, order management, and post-order systems. Requires 7+ years software engineering experience including 2+ years managing large teams, plus expertise scaling high-traffic backend and transactional systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and grow an engineering organization of 8+ engineers responsible for checkout architecture, order management, and post-order quality.
- Serve as the primary engineering point of contact for 10+ partner teams, managing high-volume intake, setting prioritization frameworks, and ensuring the team is a reliable dependency for major launches.
- Drive platform thinking by identifying opportunities to rebuild and modernize foundational systems while balancing pace of shipping customer value and making trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term architectural health.
- Own engineering execution end-to-end: roadmap alignment, technical strategy, team health, hiring, and career development.
- Partner closely with product, design, data science, and cross-functional engineering leaders to define the future of order infrastructure.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in an engineering management role leading teams of 8 or more engineers.
- Demonstrated experience owning and scaling backend systems in a high-traffic, production environment, including systems related to e-commerce, order management, checkout, or similar transactional domains.
- Proven ability to manage complex cross-functional dependencies across multiple partner teams with strong prioritization and stakeholder communication skills.
- Experience driving technical roadmaps that balance platform modernization with continuous product delivery in a fast-paced environment.
- Track record of hiring, retaining, and developing engineering talent, including performance management and career growth conversations.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in a high-growth e-commerce or marketplace company where engineering systems are directly tied to revenue and conversion outcomes.
- Familiarity with checkout or payment infrastructure, order lifecycle management, or post-order quality systems at scale.
- Strong platform and systems thinking, experience leading architectural migrations or re-platforming efforts while maintaining system reliability and team velocity.
- Comfort operating as a force multiplier across a large, distributed organization.

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