Staff Software Engineer, Home & Cross-Retailer Search

Tech Stack

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Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-year technical vision for Home and Cross-Retailer Search infrastructure, spanning retrieval, ranking, indexing, and personalization at scale.
• Own the architecture of Instacart's cross-retailer search platform, ensuring correctness, freshness, and low latency as catalog and query volume grows.
• Partner with ML Platform and Applied Science to productionize ranking models and improve experimentation infrastructure.
• Accelerate developer velocity across the sub-pillar, reduce time-to-production, build reusable components, and make it easy for product teams to experiment.
• Mentor and grow engineers across Home and XRS teams.

Soft Skills

Benefits

• Equity
• Flexible PTO
• Health Insurance
• Remote Work

Culture

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