Senior Software Engineer, Instacart Business

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 As a Senior Software Engineer on the Instacart Business team, you will play a pivotal role in advancing forward the B2B experience and capabilities of Instacart. With over 1 million businesses (from small to enterprise) who have relied on Instacart to address a variety of ordering use cases, your work will be crucial in growing this massive segment of users. This role is for a lead engineer within the team, and it requires an individual who has a strong combination of ownership, technical excellence, and product sense. We're looking for someone who is passionate about crafting scalable software and excited to take ownership of the product development lifecycle from conception to deployment. Sound exciting? Keep reading. ABOUT THE TEAM The Instacart Business team is tasked with developing Instacart's presence in the B2B ecommerce domain. You will be joining a dynamic team that operates like a startup within Instacart, dedicated to harnessing the vast potential of business users. Our roadmap includes areas such as: Building a suite of capabilities tailored to meet business needs, such as team member management, team-wide insights/reporting, tax exemptions, spend controls, etc. Building new and improving existing UX flows to encourage creation of more business users on Instacart and more spend/adoption. New applications/surfaces to reach and address the ordering needs of business users in a variety of ways (ex: retailer B2B whitelabel sites, ordering from food distributors directly, etc.) ABOUT THE JOB Holistically own and lead major workstreams within the team, from inception of a project to timely and quality launches. Influence the direction and roadmap of the team through blending strong technical vision and product sense Produce high quality technical artifacts (design docs, runbooks, etc.) in the process of executing on projects Contribute high-quality code and code reviews for the team Participate in the on-call rotation and proactively identify/address relevant production issues Elevate the team overall through mentoring other engineers and identifying/driving areas to improve effectiveness of the team. Collaborate across teams and cross functional stakeholders to foster a unified approach to product development, facilitating consensus, and driving effective outcomes. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent proven industry experience 5+ years of experience in software engineering Strong sense of ownership and entrepreneurial spirit to deliver launches/results Strong product sense and willing product thinker who is excited to think deeply about the areas that will advance the team forward and influence the roadmap of the team A collaborative mindset to be able to partner with engineers, designers and PM's from m