Senior Software Engineer II — Self-Serve Productivity

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This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: United States

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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.

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Overview

About the Role

We are currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to join our Self-Serve Productivity team. This is a fullstack role with a frontend lean, focused on building and extending Portal — Instacart's central hub for everything data. You'll partner closely with data scientists, data engineers, analysts, and product engineers to design and ship the tools they use every day to discover, understand, and trust data. You'll have meaningful ownership over user-facing surfaces that touch the entire company.

About the Team

The mission of the Instacart Self-Serve team is to improve the productivity of data practitioners through easy-to-use, self-serve tools. The Productivity sub-team owns Portal (data discovery, lineage, metadata, data quality), our semantic layer (Medusa), and a number of supporting systems built on dbt and Airflow. Portal is going through significant UI investment — including a homepage/dashboard redesign and deeper integration across the data infra ecosystem — making this a high-impact time to join.

About the Job

  • You will be part of a small team with a large amount of ownership and surface area, given that the tooling is used by the entire company.
  • You will lead frontend architecture and product execution on Portal, while contributing across the stack where needed (Python services, data pipelines, APIs).
  • You will have the freedom to suggest and drive new initiatives — including how Portal evolves as the unified data home base at Instacart.
  • You are expected to mentor other team members and be a champion of engineering excellence, particularly around frontend craft, performance, and UX quality.
  • You will work closely with other teams (Data Science, ML, Product Eng, Infra) to understand their main pain points around data and translate them into self-serve and reliable solutions.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

  • Self-motivation and an enjoyment for a startup environment
  • A strong sense of ownership
  • Strong frontend expertise — deep experience with React and TypeScript, with a track record of shipping polished, performant product UI in a large codebase
  • Comfort working fullstack — able to extend backend services (Python) and reason about APIs, data models, and pipelines as needed
  • Strong knowledge of SQL and familiarity with common data infrastructure technologies (Python, Airflow, Snowflake, dbt) in a production environment
  • Experience working with a large codebase on a cross-functional team
  • An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
  • A product mindset — you care about the experience your tools create, not just the systems behind them
  • 7+ years of working experience in a similar field/environment

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building internal developer tools, data tools, or other "tools for technical users" products
  • Familiarity with data catalog, lineage, or metadata systems (e.g., Amundsen, DataHub, OpenMetadata)
  • Experience leading frontend architecture decisions or design system work
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, OR equivalent work experience

#LI-Remote

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.

Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.

For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CA, NY, CT, NJ
$230,000—$242,500 USD
WA
$220,000—$232,000 USD
OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI
$211,000—$222,500 USD
All other states
$192,000—$202,500 USD
This offer from "Instacart" has been enriched by Jobgether.com and got a 72% flex score.
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