Senior Software Engineer II, Commerce Platform
Instacart
Senior Software Engineer II, Commerce Platform
Job Description
Responsibilities
- 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.
Required Qualifications
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
Required Skills
- Backend engineering
- Ruby
- Go
- Java
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Redis
- Memcached
- Distributed systems
- Payment processing
- APIs
- Monitoring
- Alerting
- Incident response
- A/B testing
- Data-driven decision making
- Communication
- Leadership
- Ownership
- Mentoring
Benefits
- Highly market-competitive compensation
- New hire equity grant
- Annual refresh grants
- Flex First remote work policy
Salary Range
$187000 - $250000 USD
Locations
- United States, United States (Remote)
Salary
187,000 - 250,000 USD / yearly
Skills Required
- Backend engineeringintermediate
- Rubyintermediate
- Gointermediate
- Javaintermediate
- PostgreSQLintermediate
- MySQLintermediate
- Redisintermediate
- Memcachedintermediate
- Distributed systemsintermediate
- Payment processingintermediate
- APIsintermediate
- Monitoringintermediate
- Alertingintermediate
- Incident responseintermediate
- A/B testingintermediate
- Data-driven decision makingintermediate
- Communicationintermediate
- Leadershipintermediate
- Ownershipintermediate
- Mentoringintermediate
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar. (experience)
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience in high-scale, distributed environments. (experience)
- Proficient in backend languages (e.g., Ruby, Go, Java). (experience)
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.), caching (Redis, Memcached), and distributed systems. (experience)
- Comfortable navigating complex business and technical domains, especially payments, invoicing, billing, or compliance-heavy environments. (experience)
- Strong communicator who can lead projects and drive alignment across stakeholders. (experience)
- High sense of ownership, capable of working independently, influencing team direction, and mentoring others. (experience)
- Strong background in operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, and incident response. (experience)
- Hands-on experience driving experimentation and A/B testing when launching new features, with a data-driven approach to measuring and iterating on outcomes. (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in payment infrastructure, payment authorization flows, and reconciliation. (experience)
- Experience launching payment methods, optimizing for payment success rates, or managing payment costs. (experience)
- Experience designing or operating workflows with Temporal or similar workflow orchestration technologies. (experience)
- Track record of driving measurable impact through technical innovation in payments or financial systems. (experience)
- 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 (experience)
Responsibilities
- 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
- general: Highly market-competitive compensation
- general: New hire equity grant
- general: Annual refresh grants
- general: Flex First remote work policy
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Senior Software Engineer II, Commerce Platform
Instacart
Senior Software Engineer II, Commerce Platform
Job Description
Responsibilities
- 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.
Required Qualifications
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
Required Skills
- Backend engineering
- Ruby
- Go
- Java
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Redis
- Memcached
- Distributed systems
- Payment processing
- APIs
- Monitoring
- Alerting
- Incident response
- A/B testing
- Data-driven decision making
- Communication
- Leadership
- Ownership
- Mentoring
Benefits
- Highly market-competitive compensation
- New hire equity grant
- Annual refresh grants
- Flex First remote work policy
Salary Range
$187000 - $250000 USD
Locations
- United States, United States (Remote)
Salary
187,000 - 250,000 USD / yearly
Skills Required
- Backend engineeringintermediate
- Rubyintermediate
- Gointermediate
- Javaintermediate
- PostgreSQLintermediate
- MySQLintermediate
- Redisintermediate
- Memcachedintermediate
- Distributed systemsintermediate
- Payment processingintermediate
- APIsintermediate
- Monitoringintermediate
- Alertingintermediate
- Incident responseintermediate
- A/B testingintermediate
- Data-driven decision makingintermediate
- Communicationintermediate
- Leadershipintermediate
- Ownershipintermediate
- Mentoringintermediate
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar. (experience)
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience in high-scale, distributed environments. (experience)
- Proficient in backend languages (e.g., Ruby, Go, Java). (experience)
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.), caching (Redis, Memcached), and distributed systems. (experience)
- Comfortable navigating complex business and technical domains, especially payments, invoicing, billing, or compliance-heavy environments. (experience)
- Strong communicator who can lead projects and drive alignment across stakeholders. (experience)
- High sense of ownership, capable of working independently, influencing team direction, and mentoring others. (experience)
- Strong background in operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, and incident response. (experience)
- Hands-on experience driving experimentation and A/B testing when launching new features, with a data-driven approach to measuring and iterating on outcomes. (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in payment infrastructure, payment authorization flows, and reconciliation. (experience)
- Experience launching payment methods, optimizing for payment success rates, or managing payment costs. (experience)
- Experience designing or operating workflows with Temporal or similar workflow orchestration technologies. (experience)
- Track record of driving measurable impact through technical innovation in payments or financial systems. (experience)
- 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 (experience)
Responsibilities
- 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
- general: Highly market-competitive compensation
- general: New hire equity grant
- general: Annual refresh grants
- general: Flex First remote work policy
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