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
Emerging products is the startup space within Instacart. The focus is on expanding into new business and vertices outside of core groceries. We are building systems, and platforms for new growing markets. After proving our ability to effectively create new product lines from 0 to 1, the company is investing resources to significantly grow the team to aggressively capture these new markets. The right candidate will be a strong business owner finding new ways to aggressively grow the business.
ABOUT THE JOB
You will manage a full-stack engineering team and manage the development of features and infrastructure.
You will help prioritize work for your team, making difficult tradeoffs on design based on business constraints, ensuring on-time deliverables and high-quality software.
You will provide hands-on technical management, guidance, and support including system/design/code review, and ultimately be responsible for the health of the systems your team builds.
You will participate in interviewing, hiring decisions, on-boarding, and mentoring of new engineers with the goal of quickly making them productive members of your team.
You will develop a team culture of ownership that reinforces the core values of Instacart!
ABOUT YOU
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience
2+ years of experience managing a team of software engineers
The ability to balance business needs, a sense of urgency, and shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
Knowledge of industry best practices for building large scale and highly reliable consumer applications
Strong analytical skills and a sense of ownership
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