Instacart
Senior Software Engineer - Back End (Java)
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.
OVERVIEW
Eversight - an Instacart company, is the recognized leader in AI-powered pricing and
promotions. Global brands and retailers rely on the Eversight platform to optimize pricing in
response to market conditions and to deliver higher ROI on promotional spend. Eversight s
Pricing Suite and Offer Innovation Suite solutions are driving strong margin and sales volume
improvements for leading companies such as Client, Client, Raley s, and Walgreens. Founded in
2013, Eversight recently joined Instacart in September 2022.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to quickly hit the ground running and have
impact on our core products. As part of our remarkably high performing, collaborative team of
engineers, you will be involved in everything from product decisions to implementation details.
With strong team support, significant freedom and self direction, you will experience the wealth
of interesting, challenging problems. If this sounds like you d be interested in, we d love to hear
from you!
Who You Are
• You have a strong ability to self-regulate and problem solve through obstacles in a
dynamic, fast-paced environment; maintains realistic estimations and escalates
proactively when necessary
• You attack challenging and abstract problems by breaking them down into smaller
problems, coming up with hypotheses, and proving or disproving them in a systematic
way
• You are excited and enthusiastic about the prospect of tackling challenging problems
• You connect your code to the business problems being solved and translate effectively
across business and technical boundaries
• You re motivated to learn about and impact a new market
Job Requirements：
Qualifications
• 6-12 years of software development experience; object-oriented design skills and
knowledge of website design and usability
• Strong Java skills
• Solid SQL experience
• Experience delivering enterprise software strongly preferred
• Experience diagnosing and fixing performance, scalability, and concurrency issues, both
in the application and in the database, strongly preferred
• Experience in Hibernate and/or Spring preferred
• Experience with our client Cloud, Kubernetes, and Gradle are nice-to-have
• BS or BA in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
What You ll Do
• You will work in fast-paced environment to help generate ideas and quickly turn them
into robust, well-tested, functioning code (including but not limited to Java)
• You will work with product management to define and prioritize future functionality
• You will operate in a modified scrum environment where we spec, estimate, and divide
up work as a team and then manage ourselves independently
• You will peer review other engineers code to help identify bugs, performance issues,
security issues, and provide feedback on code cleanliness
• You will play a key role in the development of best practices in software design,
implementation, and coding standards
• You will produce exemplary code and deliver completed projects in the time promised
• You will perform unit and system level testing on their application and all affected
systems
• You will implement all aspects of an application design including but not limited to:
high-performance design, coding, caching mechanisms, state management, error logging,
scalability, environment configuration, proper testing procedures, naming standards and
all other aspects of good application design and development
What s in it for You
• You will experience the excitement of working at and growing with an expanding
venture-backed SaaS startup where you can make a huge difference
• You will be part of an exceptionally talented team that retains a significant focus on
personal and professional development
• You will be part of a significant period of growth for the business
