
Software Engineering Manager – Single Retailer Experience
Instacart
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $192,000 - $243,000 per year
About the role
- Lead, develop, and retain a team of 10+ software engineers; set clear goals, grow careers, and foster an inclusive, high-performance culture.
- Own multi-quarter roadmaps for the Single Retailer Experience, delivering measurable product impact, reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
- Partner with adjacent Shopping Experience teams to design platform capabilities and APIs that enable rapid experimentation, long-term maintainability, and adoption across stakeholders.
- Engage deeply in technical execution—review designs and code, guide architectural decisions, define SLOs, establish observability standards, and oversee on-call and incident response.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Data Science to prioritize impact, land cross-org initiatives, and deliver consumer features such as Nutrition Scores, allergen indicators, and healthier alternatives.
- Prioritize and manage inbound requests across a horizontal surface area; create clarity, sequence complex programs, and deliver outcomes in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing teams of 8+ software engineers.
- Proven track record leading full-stack teams that build and operate consumer-facing products and high-scale, low-latency APIs and distributed services.
- Hands-on experience with service-oriented architectures, API design (REST and/or gRPC), and data modeling.
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Go, Java, or Python) and experience building services on a major cloud provider (e.g., AWS or GCP).
- Demonstrated ability to define and deliver a technical roadmap, align stakeholders, and ship cross-functional projects end-to-end.
- Experience hiring, coaching, and performance-managing engineers, with a commitment to building an inclusive, collaborative team environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Competitive compensation
- New hire equity grant
- Annual refresh grants
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringfull-stack developmentAPI designservice-oriented architecturedata modelingprogramming languagescloud servicestechnical roadmapcross-functional project deliveryhigh-scale APIs
Soft Skills
team leadershipcareer developmentinclusive culturecollaborationcommunicationgoal settingperformance managementproblem-solvingadaptabilitystakeholder alignment