Senior Engineering Manager, Core Picking

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.

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Overview

The Fulfillment Services team at Instacart is at the heart of building the picking technology platform that powers the fulfillment needs of the world's largest retailers and millions of customers. Our work directly shapes how shoppers experience their day-to-day work and how customers receive the quality orders they expect — and we're just getting started.

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Core Picking engineering team. As a Senior Engineering Manager for the Core Picking team at Instacart, you will lead the engineering team responsible for our core shopper picking experiences, supporting our mission to build the picking technology platform required to meet the fulfillment needs of the world's largest retailers and millions of customers. You will provide leadership in driving the stability, scalability, and extensibility of engineering systems that advance the shopper app’s picking experience. You will interface with engineering and product leaders across the company, as well as retailer leadership, to collaborate on facilitating new and innovative grocery picking solutions. As the leader of this team, you will develop Instacart's picking technology and provide shoppers with tools to work more efficiently in delivering quality orders for our customers.

This is a high-impact leadership role where you will own the technical direction for a team of 10+ engineers, set the bar for enterprise-grade engineering quality, and help shape the future of how the world's largest retailers fulfill grocery orders. If you thrive in a fast-moving environment where the problems are complex, the stakes are high, and the opportunity to make a real difference is enormous, this role is for you.

About the Job

Define, communicate, and drive the technical vision and strategy for the team that supports the product strategy and key bets for the company, including new technical investments.

Drive high-quality execution of key business outcomes of the team by overseeing the roadmap and enabling technical and product decisions.

Create best practices for production services, ensuring an exemplary enterprise-grade experience for retailers.

Lead, coach, and develop a team of 10+ engineers building the best in-class picking experience for retailers and shoppers.

Lead the recruitment and hiring processes to build a high-performing team.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

Proven track record as a hands-on technical leader, preferably at a Staff+ level in a similar industry.

10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing engineers, with a track record leading teams of 15+ and delivering complex consumer or enterprise facing products.

Ability to craft and execute strategic engineering roadmaps that align with business objectives.

Highly structured and proactive communication capabilities.

Experience in staffing, mentoring, and leading engineering teams to success.

Effective cross-functional leadership. Experience working with product managers, EM peers, and senior ICs.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience leading multiple teams or managing managers, including scaling a team from early stages to 10+ engineers.

Prior experience in managing engineering teams that oversee mission critical business systems.

Experience building enterprise-grade software systems.

Technical depth with Ruby on Rails, Go, Swift and/or Kotlin

#LI-Remote

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 rea d 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

$265,000 — $279,500 USD

WA

$254,000 — $268,000 USD

OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI

$243,000 — $256,500 USD

All other states

$221,000 — $233,000 USD