We’re the engineering team at Instacart — the leading online grocery platform in North America. We’re creating a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together by working to deliver an essential service: same-day grocery delivery. As a member of our team, you’ll have the chance to impact our core products from day one while working on small, nimble, and cross-functional teams. Everything we do — from re-routing deliveries during snowstorms, to connecting customers with coupons and deals for their favorite brands, to updating over half a billion grocery data lines each night — has to take into consideration the connection between our retailers, consumers, and shoppers. We’re looking for people who are excited to take on these challenges with us.
Team member Q&A.
For the team to be more effective, what would need to improve?
How should candidates prepare for interviews?
What makes the team effective?
What's your connection to the product?
What’s the most internally controversial decision you’ve made about your stack?
When you're interviewing candidates, are there red flags you keep an eye out for?
How does the team recognize good work?
How has your perception of the company changed since you joined?
How well do you pay compared to industry standards?
What's hard about what you're building?
What are the hours like and is remote work permitted?
What challenges are you most looking forward to in the next 12 months?
What's a problem you're in the process of solving?
Which company value resonates with you the most?
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Useful links
- Take a look at what algorithms and technologies power the Instacart marketplace.
- Learn more about who we are and what we do, our company culture, and our open roles on the Taste of Instacart page of our website.
- See what our engineering and product teams have been up to recently on the Building at Instacart page of our website.
- Get a sense of whether or not our engineering team shares your values by checking out our Key Values profile.
- Check out our company profiles on Comparably, The Muse, Built In San Francisco, and Great Place to Work.
Collaboration Practices
- Start-to-Finish Ownership
- AMAs with executive leaders (no topic or question is off limits)
Hours & location
- Work in US time zones
- Mixed on-site and remote
- Work from anywhere
Tools we use
- Ruby on Rails
- JS
- React
- Redux
- Typescript
- Python
- R
- PostgreSQL
- AWS
- Docker
- RabbitMQ
- Sidekiq
- Snowflake
- Go
- Swift
- Objective-C
Company-level stats
- B2B
- Technical founder(s)
- VC-backed
- CEO is a founder
- B2C