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Director of Software Engineering, Order Experience

Engineering ManagerEngineering ManagerFull TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2012H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

California + 18 moreAll locations: California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington

Posted

32 days ago

Salary

$254K - $321K / year

12 yrs expEnglishAndroidDistributed SystemsI OSPythonRuby

Job Description

• Manage high-volume intake from 10+ partner organizations. • Own the vision and multi-quarter roadmap for Order Experience. • Lead, mentor, and scale an organization of ~30 engineers. • Raise the technical bar across backend services (Ruby, Python), mobile (iOS, Android), web, and full-stack systems. • Establish operational excellence with clear OKRs, predictable delivery, strong on-call practices, incident response, and post-mortems. • Own key business metrics including checkout conversion, cart abandonment, order completion rate, order quality, and customer satisfaction. • Partner closely with the Commerce Platform team to build shared expertise in payments, orders, and pricing systems.

Job Requirements

  • Expert cross-organizational dependency management and intake prioritization in high-velocity environments where your systems are critical dependencies for multiple teams.
  • 12+ years of professional software engineering experience with 5+ years managing engineers, including at least 2+ years leading managers or organizations of 20+ engineers.
  • Proven experience managing platform teams that enable other engineering organizations.
  • Track record evolving legacy systems toward extensibility and self-service to reduce bottlenecks and enable team independence.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and high-availability, high-throughput systems (payments, transactions, order management).
  • Strong ability to recruit, hire, and develop senior engineering talent (L5-L6) and Engineering Managers.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and align stakeholders across Product, Design, Data Science, and Operations.

Benefits

  • Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work.
  • This role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
  • Please read more about our benefits offerings.

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