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Full Stack Software Engineer, Instacart App Growth Activation & Resurrection (New Grad)

Instacart

Instacart

Software Engineering, Sales & Business Development
Sterling, VA, USA · Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted 6+ months ago

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.

Application Deadline: August 18th

OVERVIEW

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are currently seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our Growth Activation and Resurrection team. The role involves building new product experiences, as well as optimizing existing ones, with the primary goal of attracting new customers to Instacart and re-engaging churned users. As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you'll be mentored by and collaborate closely with senior engineers, product managers, designers, and other cross-functional partners. You'll play a pivotal role in empowering the deployment of the latest technologies and creating novel customer experiences.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The mission of the Activation and Resurrection team is to welcome new customers to Instacart and re-engage churned customers. We continuously innovate our customer experiences, refine user landing and authentication flows, and provide effective coupons to enhance user engagement. We are a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary team of senior specialists from Product Management, Design, Data Science, Marketing, and Engineering. We're currently seeking new talent to expand our Engineering team!

ABOUT THE JOB

  • We work in small teams with significant ownership and autonomy over your project
  • Design, implement, and ship high quality features with a strong sense of urgency and accountability
  • Work closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and peer engineering teams to define project requirements and execution plans
  • Ensure that system designs including APIs, deployment architecture, and dependency selection result in highly scalable, robust solutions that minimize support costs and improve an outstanding customer experience
  • Contribute broadly to Instacart’s success by exercising your freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives
  • Our tech stack: We develop our web frontend apps using HTML, JavaScript, React and Ruby on Rails. We use GraphQL, gRPC, REST on the backend that powers our API’s.

ABOUT YOU

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
  • 1+ years of total work experience (including internships)
  • Experience with web development in HTML, CSS, Javascript
  • Experience with common back-end Web technologies in a production environment
  • A strong sense of ownership
  • Strong communicator, comfortable seeking and receiving feedback
  • Self-motivation and passion for a startup environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience with Ruby on Rails
  • Exposure to front end frameworks including react.js & GraphQL
  • Experience with A/B testing and having a data driven mindset
  • Relevant and recent internship experience as a full-stack software engineer
  • Experience measuring, monitoring, and improving Core Web Vitals

Join us and help Instacart grow!

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Accommodations & Accessibility

At Instacart, we strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need assistance submitting an application through our career site due to a disability, please submit an Accommodations Request Form and someone from our team will reach out soon to see how we may be able to assist.