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Overview
About the Role
As a Senior Android Engineer at Instacart, you will play a key role in developing features for our Shopper Android app. With hundreds of thousands of Shoppers depending on Instacart for their work, your contributions will be crucial in scaling and improving the mobile experience to cater to their specific needs. This position focuses on leading the architecture, design, and development of our android application, ensuring they provide the high performance and reliability our Shoppers depend on.
About the Team
The Shopper team develops and manages our Shopper app, used by hundreds of thousands of shoppers every day to fulfill customer orders. The team oversees the entire process, from onboarding new shoppers to implementing in-store picking technology and enabling last-mile delivery navigation to ensure groceries reach customers' homes efficiently. Within that spectrum In-store team is responsible for building our picking technology and providing shoppers the tools to be more efficient at enabling quality orders for our customers.
About the Job
- Architect, build, and maintain complex Android applications with clean code.
- Implement perfect UIs that match designs.
- Integrate with backend services to make sure we are delivering a great mobile user experience that is super-fast for end users.
- Own important pieces of the product that have high visibility both internally and externally.
- Envision new products and features that are inspired, considered, and forward thinking.
- Lead the entire software development cycle from ideation to deployment and everything in between.
- Communicate and collaborate extensively across multiple teams and functions within the company to drive consensus, align goals, and achieve effective cross-functional outcomes.
- Engage in the full spectrum of the development lifecycle and collaborate with a wide array of business units to deliver solutions that are of the highest quality and usability.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of Android development experience.
- Proficient in performance optimization on Android.
- Expertise in Android development technologies, including Kotlin.
- Experience with Android Jetpack libraries and frameworks such as Compose.
- Solid understanding of both RxJava and Kotlin Coroutines.
- Proven ability in rigorous unit testing and practical problem-solving.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, capable of collaborating and influencing cross-functional teams.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced proficiency in RxJava and Kotlin Coroutines.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog.
- Skilled in profiling and performance optimization on mobile platforms.
- Adaptability and willingness to wear multiple hats in a startup environment.
- The ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, designers, and PMs across multiple teams to co-develop impactful solutions while contributing to system improvements.
Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
CA, NY, CT, NJ
$195,000—$217,000 USD
WA
$187,000—$208,000 USD
OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI
$180,000—$200,000 USD
All other states
$162,000—$180,000 USD
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