Staff Software Engineer, Home & Cross-Retailer Search
$221,000 – $279,000 USD
Tech Stack
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
Technical DocumentationStakeholder ManagementE-CommerceMarketplace
Benefits
- Equity
- Health Insurance
- Flexible PTO
- Remote Work
Culture
Flex FirstCross-Functional TeamsMentorship Program
Requirements
Required: BS/MS in Computer Science, a related field.
Regions: Us
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About Instacart
Industry: e-commerce
Size: enterprise
Instacart is a company transforming the grocery industry by providing grocery delivery and essential services, offering flexible earning opportunities, and building innovative solutions for customers and advertisers.
View company profile →Compensation
Base salary: $221,000 – $279,000 USD
Equity: new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants