Top Benefits
Wellness Tailored to You: Medical, dental, vision, retirement, life & disability coverage right alongside physical & mental wellness programs, memberships and stipends to keep you and your family feeling your best.
Family Building Benefits: No matter where you are in your family journey, we support you. Our plans cover modern family planning for all. We offer leave for all parents, flexible working schedules and an active Parents@ community.
Work From Home Stipend: We help outfit your WFH setup and offer reimbursements so you can be your most productive while at home.
About the role
Who you are
- Our team values agility and thrives on change
- You're inspired by high-scale, high-impact work and want to lead in an environment that values strong design, collaboration, innovation, and clear communication
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience in high-scale, distributed environments
- Proficient in backend languages (e.g., Ruby, Go, Java)
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.), caching (Redis, Memcached), and distributed systems
- Comfortable navigating complex business and technical domains, especially payments, invoicing, billing, or compliance-heavy environments
- Strong communicator who can lead projects and drive alignment across stakeholders
- High sense of ownership, capable of working independently, influencing team direction, and mentoring others
- Strong background in operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, and incident response
- Hands-on experience driving experimentation and A/B testing when launching new features, with a data-driven approach to measuring and iterating on outcomes
- Expertise in payment infrastructure, payment authorization flows, and reconciliation
- Experience launching payment methods, optimizing for payment success rates, or managing payment costs
- Experience designing or operating workflows with Temporal or similar workflow orchestration technologies
- Track record of driving measurable impact through technical innovation in payments or financial systems
- Thrive in an AI-first engineering environment, leveraging AI-powered tools as part of your workflow and contributing to the ongoing evolution of best practices that boost team productivity
What the job involves
- We're seeking an experienced, impact-driven Senior Software Engineer II to join Instacart's Payments team—a business-critical pillar of our Platform
- Processing over $100M every day, Payments operates at the intersection of high performance, regulatory complexity, and rapid innovation
- We build reliable, accurate, and scalable systems that power every Instacart transaction
- As a technical leader in Payments, you’ll tackle some of Instacart’s most challenging and rewarding problems: optimizing payment costs, improving payment success rates, launching new payment methods, ensuring accounting precision, and architecting robust integrations with external partners
- You’ll collaborate closely with various cross functional, external, and other engineering partners to deliver seamless and secure payment experiences for all users
- We move fast to adapt to evolving business priorities and consistently deliver at a high bar
- You’ll help shape the future of our payments platform, mentor talented engineers, and foster a culture centered on ownership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement
- Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and highly available backend systems for payment processing
- Implement payment-related APIs and services, ensuring security, reliability, and accuracy at every step of the payment lifecycle
- Lead technical projects that span multiple teams, from initial design to execution and continuous improvement
- Integrate with external payment processors, gateways, wallets, and financial partners while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements
- Optimize systems for cost, performance, observability, and operational efficiency
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners across legal, product, data science, finance, operations, and more
- Proactively drive platform improvements and initiatives that impact key business metrics
- Mentor and support fellow engineers, establish best practices, and uphold high standards for code quality and architecture
Benefits
- Wellness Tailored to You: Medical, dental, vision, retirement, life & disability coverage right alongside physical & mental wellness programs, memberships and stipends to keep you and your family feeling your best.
- Family Building Benefits: No matter where you are in your family journey, we support you. Our plans cover modern family planning for all. We offer leave for all parents, flexible working schedules and an active Parents@ community.
- Work From Home Stipend: We help outfit your WFH setup and offer reimbursements so you can be your most productive while at home.
- Flexible Time Off: We all recharge differently. Take the time you need with our flexible time off policy and company-wide Self-Checkouts where we encourage everyone to sign off.
- Learning & Development: Whether you're just starting your career or leading teams, we provide customized L&D programs to help you grow and an annual allowance to pursue your development.
- Future Planning: We have you covered as you plan for your future. 401(k) matching in the US and RRSP in Canada, student loan assistance through Peanut Butter, free Rocket Lawyer membership, SoFi & First Republic financial planning and more.
- Four Year Fill-Up: We encourage our tenured employees to take longer breaks and truly unplug by doing something they love – typically four consecutive weeks around the four year mark.
- Community Connection: Support the communities you care about with volunteer weeks and get involved with our social impact program, Instacart Serves.
- Instacart Express Membership: We help keep your fridge stocked. Unlock grocery discounts with our Instacart Beta app while testing our latest features.
About Instacart
Software Development
10,000+
Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. The company partners with more than 1,500 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup services from more than 85,000 stores across North America on the Instacart Marketplace. Instacart makes it possible for millions of people to get the groceries they need from the retailers they love, and for approximately 600,000 Instacart shoppers to earn by picking, packing and delivering orders on their own flexible schedule. The Instacart Platform offers retailers a suite of enterprise-grade technology products and services to power their e-commerce experiences, fulfill orders, digitize brick-and-mortar stores, provide advertising services, and glean insights. With Instacart Ads, thousands of CPG brands – from category leaders to emerging brands – partner with the company to connect directly with consumers online, right at the point of purchase. With Instacart Health, the company is providing tools to increase nutrition security, make healthy choices easier for consumers, and expand the role that food can play in improving health outcomes. For more information, visit www.instacart.com/company.
Top Benefits
Wellness Tailored to You: Medical, dental, vision, retirement, life & disability coverage right alongside physical & mental wellness programs, memberships and stipends to keep you and your family feeling your best.
Family Building Benefits: No matter where you are in your family journey, we support you. Our plans cover modern family planning for all. We offer leave for all parents, flexible working schedules and an active Parents@ community.
Work From Home Stipend: We help outfit your WFH setup and offer reimbursements so you can be your most productive while at home.
About the role
Who you are
- Our team values agility and thrives on change
- You're inspired by high-scale, high-impact work and want to lead in an environment that values strong design, collaboration, innovation, and clear communication
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience in high-scale, distributed environments
- Proficient in backend languages (e.g., Ruby, Go, Java)
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.), caching (Redis, Memcached), and distributed systems
- Comfortable navigating complex business and technical domains, especially payments, invoicing, billing, or compliance-heavy environments
- Strong communicator who can lead projects and drive alignment across stakeholders
- High sense of ownership, capable of working independently, influencing team direction, and mentoring others
- Strong background in operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, and incident response
- Hands-on experience driving experimentation and A/B testing when launching new features, with a data-driven approach to measuring and iterating on outcomes
- Expertise in payment infrastructure, payment authorization flows, and reconciliation
- Experience launching payment methods, optimizing for payment success rates, or managing payment costs
- Experience designing or operating workflows with Temporal or similar workflow orchestration technologies
- Track record of driving measurable impact through technical innovation in payments or financial systems
- Thrive in an AI-first engineering environment, leveraging AI-powered tools as part of your workflow and contributing to the ongoing evolution of best practices that boost team productivity
What the job involves
- We're seeking an experienced, impact-driven Senior Software Engineer II to join Instacart's Payments team—a business-critical pillar of our Platform
- Processing over $100M every day, Payments operates at the intersection of high performance, regulatory complexity, and rapid innovation
- We build reliable, accurate, and scalable systems that power every Instacart transaction
- As a technical leader in Payments, you’ll tackle some of Instacart’s most challenging and rewarding problems: optimizing payment costs, improving payment success rates, launching new payment methods, ensuring accounting precision, and architecting robust integrations with external partners
- You’ll collaborate closely with various cross functional, external, and other engineering partners to deliver seamless and secure payment experiences for all users
- We move fast to adapt to evolving business priorities and consistently deliver at a high bar
- You’ll help shape the future of our payments platform, mentor talented engineers, and foster a culture centered on ownership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement
- Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and highly available backend systems for payment processing
- Implement payment-related APIs and services, ensuring security, reliability, and accuracy at every step of the payment lifecycle
- Lead technical projects that span multiple teams, from initial design to execution and continuous improvement
- Integrate with external payment processors, gateways, wallets, and financial partners while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements
- Optimize systems for cost, performance, observability, and operational efficiency
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners across legal, product, data science, finance, operations, and more
- Proactively drive platform improvements and initiatives that impact key business metrics
- Mentor and support fellow engineers, establish best practices, and uphold high standards for code quality and architecture
Benefits
- Wellness Tailored to You: Medical, dental, vision, retirement, life & disability coverage right alongside physical & mental wellness programs, memberships and stipends to keep you and your family feeling your best.
- Family Building Benefits: No matter where you are in your family journey, we support you. Our plans cover modern family planning for all. We offer leave for all parents, flexible working schedules and an active Parents@ community.
- Work From Home Stipend: We help outfit your WFH setup and offer reimbursements so you can be your most productive while at home.
- Flexible Time Off: We all recharge differently. Take the time you need with our flexible time off policy and company-wide Self-Checkouts where we encourage everyone to sign off.
- Learning & Development: Whether you're just starting your career or leading teams, we provide customized L&D programs to help you grow and an annual allowance to pursue your development.
- Future Planning: We have you covered as you plan for your future. 401(k) matching in the US and RRSP in Canada, student loan assistance through Peanut Butter, free Rocket Lawyer membership, SoFi & First Republic financial planning and more.
- Four Year Fill-Up: We encourage our tenured employees to take longer breaks and truly unplug by doing something they love – typically four consecutive weeks around the four year mark.
- Community Connection: Support the communities you care about with volunteer weeks and get involved with our social impact program, Instacart Serves.
- Instacart Express Membership: We help keep your fridge stocked. Unlock grocery discounts with our Instacart Beta app while testing our latest features.
About Instacart
Software Development
10,000+
Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. The company partners with more than 1,500 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup services from more than 85,000 stores across North America on the Instacart Marketplace. Instacart makes it possible for millions of people to get the groceries they need from the retailers they love, and for approximately 600,000 Instacart shoppers to earn by picking, packing and delivering orders on their own flexible schedule. The Instacart Platform offers retailers a suite of enterprise-grade technology products and services to power their e-commerce experiences, fulfill orders, digitize brick-and-mortar stores, provide advertising services, and glean insights. With Instacart Ads, thousands of CPG brands – from category leaders to emerging brands – partner with the company to connect directly with consumers online, right at the point of purchase. With Instacart Health, the company is providing tools to increase nutrition security, make healthy choices easier for consumers, and expand the role that food can play in improving health outcomes. For more information, visit www.instacart.com/company.