Android Engineer, Shopper App
Top Benefits
About the role
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 About the Role As an 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.
- Participate in code reviews to maintain high development standards
- Communicate and collaborate extensively across multiple teams and functions within the company to drive consensus, align goals, and achieve effective cross-functional outcomes.
About You Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of Android development experience.
- Expertise in Android development technologies, including Kotlin.
- Experience with Android Jetpack libraries and frameworks such as Compose.
- Familiarity with 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.
- 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. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
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 Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
CAN
$142,000—$158,000 CAD
About Instacart
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.
Android Engineer, Shopper App
Top Benefits
About the role
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 About the Role As an 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.
- Participate in code reviews to maintain high development standards
- Communicate and collaborate extensively across multiple teams and functions within the company to drive consensus, align goals, and achieve effective cross-functional outcomes.
About You Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of Android development experience.
- Expertise in Android development technologies, including Kotlin.
- Experience with Android Jetpack libraries and frameworks such as Compose.
- Familiarity with 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.
- 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. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
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 Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
CAN
$142,000—$158,000 CAD
About Instacart
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.