Senior / Staff Software Engineer

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.

Instacart is a Flex First team

There's no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work?"whether it's from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop?"while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.

OVERVIEW

Instacart recently acquired the FoodStorm team, a Melbourne based company which has been creating amazing catering and order management software for the biggest Supermarkets globally. (TechCrunch article)

FoodStorm's order management system makes it easier for customers to place an order and for grocers to fulfill that order across their store network. The platform also offers order tracking, payment solutions, and CRM capabilities that help grocers collect feedback, market their offerings, and leverage promotional features.

ABOUT THE JOB

• Develop the FoodStorm software platform; scope includes software design, development, database development, testing, deployment and bug fixing.
• Being part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for managing things directly, and the freedom to suggest and drive team wide initiatives.
• Shipping high quality, scalable and robust solutions with a sense of urgency.
• Problem solve & troubleshoot complex technical and design challenges and implement innovative solutions
• Software architecture & database design and implementation
• Implement processes and practices to support the scaling of the development team
• Facilitating collaboration with colleagues and mentoring/teaching other technical staff

ABOUT YOU

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Highly proficient in Microsoft .NET Framework, MVC & C# Language.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft SQL Server (SQL Azure preferred), T-SQL, Tables, Views & Stored Procedures.
• Highly proficient web development skills in HTML, CSS & Javascript.
• High level of business acumen with ability to consider all dimensions of business issues into solution design.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to "think outside the box".

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in management, deployment and scaling of cloud based services ideally the Azure Platform.
• Ability to lead and influence others in technical problem solving and solution design
• Knowledge of scalable system design including cloud scalability & Azure infrastructure.
• Exposure to front end frameworks including react.js & JQuery
• Ability to size, prioritize, manage tasks and commit to agreed deadlines

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Accommodations & Accessibility

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