[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Ads

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Instacart is transforming the grocery industry by providing essential services for grocery delivery. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Ads team, playing a critical role in developing reporting solutions and enhancing their Ads suite. The role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive end-to-end development and improve the quality of their advertising products.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of new ad formats
• Collaborate across teams and across functions to set product requirements and long-term strategies
• Uphold and elevate technical standards, ensuring superior code quality, test coverage, and system performance
• Embrace cross-functional roles and tackle challenges beyond just code to amplify product outcomes

Skills

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent proven industry experience (4+ years)
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Comprehensive understanding of distributed systems, proven experience with data processing technologies such as DBT and Airflow and common web frameworks such as Rails
• Highly proficient with SQL, capable of writing and reviewing complex queries for data analysis and debugging
• You can design for scale with the entire system in mind
• Solid communicator, comfortable seeking and receiving feedback
• Strong analytical and debugging skills
• Strong sense of ownership working with a large codebase and diverse suite of products
• A collaborative mindset to be able to partner with engineers, designers and PM's from multiple teams to co-create impactful solutions while supporting system contributions
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to communicate and present ideas clearly and influence key stakeholders at the manager, director, and VP level
• Prior work experience in the digital advertising industry
• Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Hive or Kafka, and with both streaming and batching data pipelines
• Proven experience with distributed system design
• Strong general programming and algorithm skills
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy in the implementation, keen eye for edge cases and code reviews
• Data driven mindset

Benefits

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.
• This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
• Please read more about our benefits offerings here (https://instacart.careers/taste-of-instacart/).
• 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.

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