Website Instacart
Position Summary:
Enterprise Connect is the team externalizing all of Instacart’s innovations for our retailer partners’ consumption through a common API and integration layer. Our system powers many of our partners’ eCommerce experiences in conjunction with Instacart’s intelligent fulfillment network. We ensure that our interfaces are fully flexible and can be integrated into any eCommerce fulfillment scenarios, be it full service shopping, last mile delivery, or pick-up.
Within Enterprise Connect, you will manage the Connect API team as they work to architect and build a portfolio of high performance external APIs to quickly provide innovation to our retailer partners. This team ensures that we have the best in class API definitions to integrate Instacart features to any eCommerce fulfillment experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- You will develop a team culture of ownership that reinforces the core values of Instacart!
- You will participate in interviewing, hiring decisions, on-boarding, and mentoring of new engineers with the goal of quickly making them productive members of your team.
- You will manage a full-stack engineering team that owns Instacart’s external API layer and manage the development of features and infrastructure, and help drive its future vision and strategy.
- You will collaborate closely with Instacart’s technical delivery team and our retailer partners in understanding their unique eCommerce needs and scenarios and participate in driving solutions.
- You will work closely with cross functional stakeholders and help prioritize work for your team, making difficult tradeoffs on design based on business constraints, ensuring on-time deliverables and high-quality software.
- You will provide hands-on technical management, guidance, and support including system/design/code review, and ultimately be responsible for the health of the systems your team builds.
Required Education & Experience:
- 2+ years of experience managing a team of software engineers
- Knowledge of industry best practices for building large scale and highly reliable consumer applications
- Strong analytical skills and a sense of ownership
- Ability to balance business needs, a sense of urgency, and shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience