Senior Software Engineer architecting backend services and data pipelines for Instacart’s paid marketing systems. Leading campaign execution, conversion tracking, integrations, and technical strategy.
Responsibilities
Lead complete projects independently across backend services, APIs, and data pipelines
Define experimentation, development, and rollout strategies across multiple systems
Architect scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient solutions for high-throughput marketing operations
Identify underlying technical problems and design reusable abstractions
Partner with Marketing and Product stakeholders to shape features, requirements, and strategy
Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and onboarding
Improve team productivity through process improvements and automation
Requirements
5–8 years of software engineering experience with expert-level proficiency in Python for scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines
Proven track record of leading complete projects end-to-end, including architecture design, implementation, experimentation, and production rollout
Deep expertise with Snowflake, SQL, ETL processes, Airflow, and DBT
Experience designing for performance, scalability, and robustness
Experience implementing observability solutions including logging, metrics, and tracing
Strong product thinking and ability to make strategic technical and business trade-offs
Excellent communication skills and ability to mentor engineers, drive cross-team alignment, and translate technical concepts
Preferred: automation frameworks, ad platform APIs, digital marketing operations and KPIs, cloud cost optimization, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, technical debt modernization, security-by-design, incident response, and AI-assisted development infrastructure
Benefits
Flexible choice of work location: home, office, or favorite coffee shop
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