Senior Software Engineer II — Self-Serve Productivity
Instacart
- Location
- California · New York · Connecticut +17
- Workplace
- Remote
- Employment
- Full Time
- Salary
- USD 192,000–242,500/yr
Posted 3mo ago
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Responsibilities
- Build and extend Portal, Instacart's central data hub
- Partner with data scientists, data engineers, and analysts
- Design and ship tools for data discovery, understanding, and trust
- Own user-facing surfaces touching the entire company
- Improve productivity of data practitioners through self-serve tools
- Own Portal (data discovery, lineage, metadata, data quality)
- Own semantic layer (Medusa)
- Own supporting systems built on dbt and Airflow
- Lead frontend architecture and product execution on Portal
- Contribute across the stack (Python services, data pipelines, APIs)
- Suggest and drive new initiatives for Portal's evolution
- Mentor other team members
- Champion engineering excellence (frontend craft, performance, UX quality)
- Work with other teams to understand data pain points
- Translate pain points into self-serve and reliable solutions
Requirements
- 7+ years of working experience in a similar field/environment
- Self-motivation and enjoyment for a startup environment
- Strong sense of ownership
- Strong frontend expertise
- Deep experience with React
- Deep experience with TypeScript
- Track record of shipping polished, performant product UI in a large codebase
- Comfort working fullstack
- Able to extend backend services (Python)
- Able to reason about APIs, data models, and pipelines
- Strong knowledge of SQL
- Familiarity with common data infrastructure technologies in a production environment
- Familiarity with Python
- Familiarity with Airflow
- Familiarity with Snowflake
- Familiarity with dbt
- Experience working with a large codebase on a cross-functional team
- Ability to balance urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
- Product mindset — care about the experience your tools create
Preferred
- Experience building internal developer tools, data tools, or other 'tools for technical users' products
- Familiarity with data catalog, lineage, or metadata systems (e.g., Amundsen, DataHub, OpenMetadata)
- Experience leading frontend architecture decisions or design system work
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, OR equivalent work experience
Skills
- React
- TypeScript
- Python
- SQL
- Airflow
- Snowflake
- dbt
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