We're transforming the grocery industry
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.
OverviewAbout the Role
We are seeking an Android Design Engineer to play a central role in building out the next generation of Instacart's design system components and infrastructure. In this position, you will work with a high-performing, collaborative, cross-functional, and friendly team to help scale our mission of providing access to the food people love and more time to enjoy it together. You will develop mobile components, provide elegant solutions to help engineers create great experiences, and collaborate closely with designers and engineers.
About the Team
The Instacart Design Team is dedicated to making grocery shopping effortless for everyone and finding solutions to large-scale opportunities that will forever change the way people feed themselves and their loved ones. The Design System team works to create reusable components and patterns that enable feature teams to build consistent, high-quality user experiences quickly and efficiently.
About the Job
- Develop our next version of Instacart Design System’s Android components
- Provide elegant, simple solutions that help engineers create great experiences at high velocity
- Collaborate with engineering peers to design elegant and consistent component APIs
- Focus on the details of developer experience to make using the Instacart Design System absolutely frictionless
- Engage with designers daily to co-create the best possible components and patterns
- Support Instacart's Android engineering team with best-in-class documentation/support
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Android app UI development
- Practical knowledge and experience using Jetpack Compose
- Effective in developing native mobile applications with accessibility in mind
- Strong communication and written skills
- Solid understanding of fundamental design principles and high attention to detail in UI implementation
- An exceptionally collaborative approach towards working with design and engineering teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Background in writing developer-oriented documentation
- Experience working directly on a design system team
#LI-Remote
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.
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 US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
CA, NY, CT, NJ
$192,000—$213,000 USD
WA
$184,000—$204,000 USD
OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI
$176,000—$196,000 USD
All other states
$159,000—$195,000 USD
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What We Do
Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. The company partners with more than 1,500 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup services from more than 85,000 stores across North America on the Instacart Marketplace. Instacart makes it possible for millions of people to get the groceries they need from the retailers they love, and for approximately 600,000 Instacart shoppers to earn by picking, packing and delivering orders on their own flexible schedule.
Why Work With Us
Our mission is to create a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. By joining Instacart at this stage of our growth you will be jumping into a high-impact, career-defining environment that is revolutionizing the way people shop for groceries
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