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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
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Caper Support and Tooling team, you will lead the design and development of a next‑generation tooling platform that empowers both internal teams and retailer teams to work smarter, faster, and more efficiently. You’ll drive the architecture and implementation of systems that enable intelligent demo workflows, AI‑powered insights into customer shopping behavior, automated feedback loops, and robust full‑stack data exploration tools for our retail partners.
This role combines hands‑on technical depth, end‑to‑end system ownership, product thinking, and mentorship. You’ll work closely with engineering, product, design, AI/ML experts, BD teams, and retailer partners to define and deliver high‑impact software that accelerates Caper’s growth and strengthens our ecosystem.
Caper tooling spans web applications, backend services, data infrastructure, AI‑driven insights, and tools that integrate closely with our smart cart hardware. You will help set the technical direction for these systems and build a cohesive platform that improves collaboration, increases operational efficiency, and empowers retailers with powerful data and analytics.
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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.
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Instacart (YC S12) is building the best way for people everywhere in the world to shop for groceries. Using your phone or the web, you can order groceries and have them delivered to your door in minutes. You can choose from a variety of local stores including Whole Foods, Safeway, Costco, Mariano's and many more, as well as being able to mix items from multiple stores into one order. Every day, we solve incredibly hard problems to create an experience for our customers that is nothing short of magical. We are located in San Francisco, and well-funded by some of the greatest investors in the world, like Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Andreesen Horowitz, SV Angel, and Y Combinator. Check out www.instacart.com/locations to see our delivery coverage maps.
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