InstacartCaliforniaThe Senior Software Engineer II, Core Experience will lead efforts to enhance content discoverability and purchase processes by improving backend systems. This role involves developing robust backend architectures for advanced recommendation and personalization systems, collaborating with ML engineers, product teams, and data scientists.
This role challenges traditional approaches to digital shopping by improving backend systems that power a seamless user journey. You will lead efforts to enhance content discoverability and purchase processes, helping to perfect the interaction between user desires and our vast product offerings.
The Senior Software Engineer will focus on enhancing the user experience by developing robust backend architectures that support advanced recommendation and personalization systems. In close collaboration with ML engineers, product teams, and data scientists, you will lead the innovation of our backend services, enabling sophisticated, data-driven features that adapt to our customers' shopping behaviors.
The Core Experience teams are dedicated to creating engaging and straightforward shopping experiences. You will be part of a team that is at the heart of product innovation, focusing on everything from the user interfaces to the underlying systems that support our web and mobile platforms. Our team’s work is guided by a data-driven methodology that ensures decisions are aligned with consumer needs, helping us move swiftly and efficiently in our development processes.
The Order Quality Team at Instacart is dedicated to delivering a seamless and dependable online grocery experience by ensuring every order is picked and delivered with the highest level of accuracy and care. We are responsible for the end to end post-checkout journey, which includes building intelligent replacement algorithms, providing real-time order status updates, and managing communication channels through SMS, push notifications, and live activity tracking. Our team also oversees features such as item summary pages, chat, cancellations and rescheduling, post-checkout pickup experience, and post order feedback, always striving to recover gracefully when things don’t go as planned. The Order Quality Team plays a vital role in creating transparency and control for customers, embodying Instacart’s commitment to operational excellence and innovation at scale.
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here. For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below. CA, NY, CT, NJ$230,000—$242,000 USD WA$220,000—$232,000 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI$211,000—$222,000 USD All other states$192,000—$202,000 USD
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