Senior Software Engineer, Fulfillment

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Instacart is a Flex First team

Instacart is seeking a backend engineer with demonstrated success building highly reliable, performant and scalable software to shape the platform powering real-world, real-time processes. The Logistics Platform team owns the execution layer of Instacart’s fulfillment system across the globe, including batching, routing, dispatch, and shopper pay. This role builds the platform that routes orders, allocates fulfillment execution tasks to shoppers, tracks fulfillment status and determines compensation. A year from now, shoppers get efficient and fulfilling work, retailers and consumer brands improve their value proposition, and customers receive their orders on time and to their satisfaction.

• Backend applications and systems for routing, task allocation, fulfillment tracking and shopper compensation are architected, built and maintained
• Technical design for high-impact projects and initiatives is led, with logistics problems across the consumer marketplace and enterprise space solved through shipped features
• Tier-0 systems are reliable and observable, with clear ownership
• Platform best practices are driven through alignment with product, compliance and engineering stakeholders
• AI-assisted tooling and workflows raise day-to-day productivity for you and the team, and engineers are mentored toward a higher bar for code quality, testing, and operational practices

Minimum Qualifications

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