Engineering Manager

• Oversee multiple development teams, ensuring ROI-aligned delivery
• Define KPIs, budgets, and SLAs for application portfolio
• Implement and maintain DevOps, CI/CD, and quality frameworks
• Mentor and hire top engineering talent
• Liaise between IT and business to align technical strategy

Manager, Applications Development and Engineering

• Take full ownership of the product's codebase, architecture, and roadmap
• Lead engineering for our AI-native product
• Build and integrate AI capabilities into the product
• Ship fast and take features from rough idea to users
• Make foundational technical decisions
• Build the eval and observability layer
• Sit in customer calls weekly
• Recruit, interview, and hire the engineering team
• Set and protect the engineering culture
• Mentor and lead future hires

Founding Head of Engineering

• Lead and grow an engineering organization of 8+ engineers responsible for checkout architecture, order management, and post-order quality. These systems are foundational to Instacart's core customer experience and directly impact conversion and reliability at scale.
• Serve as the primary engineering point of contact for 10+ partner teams across the organization, managing high-volume intake, setting clear prioritization frameworks, and ensuring Order Experience remains a reliable, well-scoped dependency for every major launch at Instacart.
• Drive platform thinking across the team by identifying opportunities to rebuild and modernize foundational systems without sacrificing the pace of shipping customer-facing value, and making principled trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term architectural health.
• Own engineering execution end to end: from roadmap alignment and technical strategy to team health, hiring, and career development for a high-performing group of engineers navigating a fast-moving, high-stakes domain.
• Partner closely with product, design, data science, and cross-functional engineering leaders to define the future of order infrastructure to influence how Instacart scales its checkout and fulfillment systems as the business continues to grow.

Engineering Manager – Order Experience

• Manage, mentor, and coach a team of Mobile Software Engineers.
• Lead recruitment and hiring efforts for software engineering vacancies on your team.
• Partner with product managers, UX designers, data analysts, and editorial partners.
• Lead the technical planning, scoping, and execution of future software projects.
• Conduct thorough software design and code reviews.
• Analyze, propose, and implement engineering workflow improvements.
• Identify common engineering blockers and pain points.
• Oversee and coordinate the team's response to critical mobile production bugs.

Manager, Mobile Software Engineering

• Leading HR transformation initiatives to optimize workforce strategies and enhance organizational effectiveness
• Guiding clients in assessing and improving HR processes, policies, and systems to align with business objectives
• Developing and implementing HR technology solutions to improve service delivery models and enhance HR function efficiency
• Managing client engagements by planning, budgeting, executing, and completing projects successfully
• Mentoring team members to leverage their strengths and deliver quality outcomes
• Analyzing system interactions to identify opportunities for business transformation and process optimization
• Encouraging innovation and embracing technology to enhance service delivery and client satisfaction
• Addressing conflicts and engaging in challenging conversations with stakeholders to resolve issues effectively
• Upholding professional and technical standards while reinforcing the firm's code of conduct and independence requirements

Workforce Management Manager

• Hire, manage, and develop a team of software engineers — own their performance, processes, priorities, and long-term career goals.
• Drive the execution of your team's quarterly roadmap: break down goals into clear, measurable milestones and deliver on time with high quality toward business outcomes.
• Stay technically engaged — participate in design and code reviews, contribute to architecture decisions, and help engineers make sound technical tradeoffs.
• Identify and drive organizational improvements through close partnership with other Engineering Managers, Directors, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Partner with product, SRE, security, and domain engineering teams to define platform contracts, close delivery gaps, and align on reliability, velocity, and cost goals.
• Communicate effectively across the engineering and R&D organizations — translate technical complexity to non-technical audiences and represent your team's needs to leadership.
• Build and improve the tooling, infrastructure, or reliability systems your team owns — ensuring observability, adoption, and impact are visible and measurable.
• Own the toolchain, platform, or reliability strategy for your area from local development through production, and communicate that strategy clearly to the broader engineering organization.
• Foster a culture of open communication, high ownership, and continuous improvement — where engineers feel invested in the team's success and empowered to take initiative.

Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Platform/Infra

• Lead the group responsible for Instacart’s core deployment and release engineering systems, including our canary infrastructure and end‑to‑end deployment tooling.
• Partner closely with product, infrastructure, and service teams to define and evolve a platform that enables fast iteration without compromising reliability.
• Set the vision, drive execution, and ensure that Instacart engineers have world‑class tools to deploy, validate, and monitor their services.
• Work closely with experienced engineers and leaders across Instacart to drive key reliability and platform initiatives end to end.

Engineering Manager, Service Platform

• Lead, coach, and support a team of engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, career development, goal setting, performance management, and growth planning.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering leads, and other cross functional leads to shape priorities, clarify scope, manage tradeoffs, and deliver valuable payments capabilities to our customers.
• Create clarity around ownership, priorities, technical direction, and team standards so the team can execute with focus, accountability, and strong delivery expectations.
• Help the team break down complex payments work into clear plans with responsible sequencing, risk management, and realistic delivery expectations.
• Contribute directly as a senior engineer in targeted ways, including designing, implementing, reviewing, and supporting backend services, APIs, event-driven workflows, data models, and payment integrations.
• Guide technical decision making across APIs, services, event streams, third party payment provider integrations, observability, reliability, and operational workflows.
• Raise the quality and reliability bar for owned systems through strong engineering practices, automated testing, code reviews, monitoring, documentation, on-call participation, and incident response.
• Encourage responsible use of modern engineering tools, including AI-assisted workflows where they improve quality, developer experience, and delivery.

• Lead, mentor and support a large cadre of experienced engineering individuals overseeing teams across the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand
• Own product intent, portfolio priorities, and trade-off decisions across assigned product lines, acting as the accountable voice for both engineering and product outcomes
• Devise and apply communications strategies to align a global, cross-functional workforce around product and delivery goals
• Engage stakeholders to reconcile strategic, commercial, and technical priorities - translating customer signal into product direction
• Assemble and monitor high-performance, multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Set objectives, monitor performance, promote communication, and ensure the well-being of direct reports
• Support administrative tasks to ensure timely processing of actions affecting direct reports
• Define and guard product intent - establishing what each product is, what it is not, and who it is for - and restate this when scope pressure arises
• Collaborate with team leads to review high-level architecture, internal project goals, and technical barriers
• Partner with stakeholders to refine project priorities and adapt deliveries based on evolving market and customer requirements
• Analyze program requirements and develop effort estimates in conjunction with program management partners
• Maintain depth in respective disciplines and contribute to ongoing software projects in research, engineering, or quality assurance

Manager, Product Engineering

• Grow, develop, manage, and lead a multidisciplinary team of seasoned software and system engineers across all aspects of Privacy.
• Advise executive and senior technical & business leadership on Instacart’s privacy vision through regular and consistent written and in-person communication.
• Lead Privacy Engineering partnership with infrastructure and application teams, to ensure all products are developed and delivered with security and privacy in mind through Privacy by Design.
• Implement policies and procedures that protect our customer and partner data.
• Develop and provide metrics and reports to the senior leadership of the top privacy and security risks and health of their respective organizations.

Senior Engineering Manager, Privacy Security

• Building and managing a high performing team of infrastructure, operations, and cybersecurity engineers
• Working daily with our teams to modernize and simplify the processes and tools
• Reviewing project plans and engineering solutions to ensure we integrate the latest tools and techniques
• Educating teams on adoption of automation practices and tooling
• Working directly with our customer to identify new problems and presenting innovative solutions
• Identifying and implementing improvements to how we securely build, deploy and monitor endpoint devices
• Provide insight and guidance for the preparation and maintenance of all documentation for processes and procedures related to engineering projects
• Perform continual maintenance and create solutions for security, backup and redundancy problems for security and systems monitoring tools

Lead Engineering Manager

• Establish clear, outcome-driven professional development plans with milestones for engineers and managers.
• Provide ongoing coaching through 1:1s, feedback, and active mentorship, raising the bar on both technical and leadership excellence.
• Build a strong team culture grounded in ownership, trust, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.
• Attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent in close partnership with Recruiting.
• Grow future technical and people leaders by creating opportunities for increased scope, ownership, and impact.
• Guide teams in the design, evolution, and operation of scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems, especially in areas spanning multiple services and product domains.
• Act as a senior technical leader who can dive deep into architecture discussions, review designs, and help teams navigate complex technical trade-offs.
• Ensure high standards of engineering quality, including system reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence.
• Own delivery outcomes for your teams across discovery, design, implementation, and production.
• Build, communicate, and continuously refine a clear technical and execution roadmap aligned with business and product goals.
• Drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces by breaking down complex initiatives into actionable plans with measurable outcomes.

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