Senior Software Engineer, Loyalty & Membership at Instacart

Canada - Remote (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only)·2d ago

SeniorFull-timePythonJavaAWSGCPKubernetesDockerPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedis

Salary Range

$86,190 - $116,610 /year

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→Design, build, and scale robust back-end services and APIs that power loyalty benefits and membership experiences for millions of customers.
→Own end-to-end delivery for critical initiatives, including launching new retailer loyalty programs in Europe and migrating Instacart+ onto the Memberships Platform.
→Architect low-latency, high-throughput systems for incentive processing, ensuring reliability, fault tolerance, and horizontal scalability.
→Drive operational excellence with comprehensive automated tests, monitoring, metrics, and alerting to ensure high availability and clear on-call visibility.
→Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, BD, Design, Data Science, and partner engineering teams to align on goals, sequencing, and delivery timelines.
→Validate technical feasibility, contribute to high-quality design reviews, and coach peers through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
→Iterate quickly using an experiment-driven approach, instrumenting features to quantify impact and inform roadmap decisions.

✓Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
✓5+ years of professional experience developing production back-end services.
✓3+ years designing and implementing distributed systems and service architectures.
✓Proficiency in one or more server-side languages such as Ruby, Python, or Java.
✓Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB).
✓Experience with caching technologies (e.g., Redis, Memcached) and message-driven or eventing patterns.
✓Track record building and maintaining well-instrumented systems with automated tests, monitoring, and alerting.
✓Experience shipping features in fast-paced environments and collaborating with cross-functional partners.