Senior Software Engineer, Customers Back End

Instacart Senior Software Engineer, Customers Back End About the role Technology @ Instacart About Back End at Instacart Responsibilities Requirements Desirable AboutInstacart Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup From a technology point of view, the platform is complex, rapidly scaling and processing millions of transactions in real-time all of the time. Our technology coupled with operational expertise enables Instacart to deliver fresh groceries in as little as an hour. This is a difficult problem to master and we are making it happen. Every day, we solve incredibly hard problems to create an experience for our customers that is absolutely magical. Our backend systems power the clients used by millions of customers every year to buy their groceries online. These systems must also support tight integration with the largest retailers in the US and Canada. Backend engineering at Instacart provides the opportunity to work on challenging scaling solutions while also designing the features that will define our industry. You'll have the opportunity to work with an Elasticsearch cluster serving millions of requests per day, a unique order lifecycle system that processes thousands of order per hour, and a recovery system capable of rebuilding the entire Instacart platform from scratch. Our applications run on Ruby on Rails. We use Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Cassandra as our datastores. Memcached and Redis for caching. Kinesis for stream processing. Sidekiq for job processing. As we grow to serve more customers and deepen our relationships with our retail partners we are constantly given new opportunities to solve fascinating and rewarding challenges. Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Instacart’s same-day delivery and pickup services bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada in as fast as an hour. Since its founding in 2012, Instacart has become an essential service for millions of families, while also serving as an immediate, flexible earnings opportunity for hundreds of thousands of shoppers across North America. The company partners with more than 350 retailers and delivers from more than 25,000 stores across more than 5,500 cities in North America. Today, Instacart is accessible to more than 85% of households in the U.S. and more than 70% of households in Canada. • You will be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for managing things directly. • You will work closely with product managers, other teams, and both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution. • You will ship high quality, scalable and robust solutions with a sense of urgency. • You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives. • Self-motivation and an enjoyment for a startup environment • A strong sense of ownership • Strong knowledge of common back-end Web technologies (such as Ruby on Rails, Python, etc) in a production environment • An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions • Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team. • Strong knowledge of SQL • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering OR equivalent work experience • Previous technical leadership/platform experience • Experience building consumer systems at scale • Interest or experience in distributed systems • Strong analytical and debugging skills • iOS or Android experience • Contributions to the technical communities (e.g. open source, blogging, etc.) InstacartMarketplace for grocery delivery and pickupSenior Software Engineer, Customers Back End•San francisco, CAJob typeFull-timeRoleEngineering, BackendExperience3+ yearsVisaWill sponsorSkillsPython, Ruby on Rails, SQL, ElasticsearchApply toInstacartand hundreds of other fast-growing YC startups with a single profile.Apply to role ›About the roleTechnology @ InstacartFrom a technology point of view, the platform is complex, rapidly scaling and processing millions of transactions in real-time InstacartMarketplace for grocery delivery and pickup Senior Software Engineer, Customers Back End•San francisco, CAJob typeFull-timeRoleEngineering, BackendExperience3+ yearsVisaWill sponsorSkillsPython, Ruby on Rails, SQL, ElasticsearchApply toInstacartand hundreds of other fast-growing YC startups with a single profile.Apply to role › Job typeFull-timeRoleEngineering, BackendExperience3+ yearsVisaWill sponsorSkillsPython, Ruby on Rails, SQL, Elasticsearch Apply toInstacartand hundreds of other fast-growing YC startups with a single profile.Apply to role › Apply toInstacartand hundreds of other fast-growing YC startups with a single profile.

Senior Software Engineer, Customers Back End at Instacart | Y Combinator Instacart Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup Senior Software Engineer, Customers Back End • San francisco, CA Job type Full-time Role Engineering, Backend Experience 3+ years Visa Will sponsor Skills Python, Ruby on Rails, SQL, Elasticsearch Apply to Instacart and hundreds of other fast-growing YC startups with a single profile. Apply to role › About the role Technology @ Instacart From a technology point of view, the platform is complex, rapidly scaling and processing millions of transactions in real-time all of the time. Our technology coupled with operational expertise enables Instacart to deliver fresh groceries in as little as an hour. This is a difficult problem to master and we are making it happen. Every day, we solve incredibly hard problems to create an experience for our customers that is absolutely magical. About Back End at Instacart Our backend systems power the clients used by millions of customers every year to buy their groceries online. These systems must also support tight integration with the largest retailers in the US and Canada. Backend engineering at Instacart provides the opportunity to work on challenging scaling solutions while also designing the features that will define our industry. You'll have the opportunity to work with an Elasticsearch cluster serving millions of requests per day, a unique order lifecycle system that processes thousands of order per hour, and a recovery system capable of rebuilding the entire Instacart platform from scratch. Our applications run on Ruby on Rails. We use Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Cassandra as our datastores. Memcached and Redis for caching. Kinesis for stream processing. Sidekiq for job processing. As we grow to serve more customers and deepen our relationships with our retail partners we are constantly given new opportunities to solve fascinating and rewarding challenges. Responsibilities You will be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for managing things directly. You will work closely with product managers, other teams, and both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution. You will ship high quality, scalable and robust solutions with a sense of urgency. You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives. Requirements Self-motivation and an enjoyment for a startup environment A strong sense of ownership Strong knowledge of common back-end Web technologies (such as Ruby on Rails, Python, etc) in a production environment An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team. Strong knowledge of SQL Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering OR equivalent work experience Desirable Previous technical leadership/platform experience Experience building consumer systems at scale Interest or experience in distributed systems Strong analytical and debugging skills iOS or Android experience Contributions to the technical communities (e.g. open source, blogging, etc.) About Instacart Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Instacart’s same-day delivery and pickup services bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada in as fast as an hour. Since its founding in 2012, Instacart has become an essential service for millions of families, while also serving as an immediate, flexible earnings opportunity for hundreds of thousands of shoppers across North America. The company partners with more than 350 retailers and delivers from more than 25,000 stores across more than 5,500 cities in North America. Today, Instacart is accessible to more than 85% of households in the U.S. and more than 70% of households in Canada. Instacart Founded: 2012 Batch: S12 Team Size: 3000 Status: Public Location: San Francisco Founders Brandon Leonardo Founder Brandon Leonardo Founder Apoorva Mehta Chairman & Founding CEO Apoorva Mehta Chairman & Founding CEO Max Mullen Founder Max Mullen Founder Similar Jobs Checkr Senior Software Engineer Courtyard.io Staff Backend Software Engineer Everest Engineering Intern (Spring & Summer 26, SF free housing) Modern Treasury Software Engineer - Payments Shadeform Founding (Senior) Software Engineer Gather Staff Fullstack Engineer - Grapevine (AI) Crustdata Senior Data Platform Engineer Veryfi, Inc. 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