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.
About the Role
We are looking for a highly motivated Senior iOS Engineer to join our dynamic team. You'll be instrumental in building innovative features to create a better experience for our shoppers and help them be more effective when shopping for Instacart. You'll work on exciting areas like checkout technology, payment integration, and OCR data extraction that will help provide the tools to empower our shoppers to be successful.
About the Team
The Shoppers team is responsible for building our Shopper Application, which hundreds of thousands of shoppers use daily to fulfill customer orders. Our team owns the end-to-end flow, from shopper onboarding to the picking technology used within the store to the last-mile delivery navigation to get groceries to a customer's home.
About the Job
- Work closely with product and design teams to build innovative mobile experiences
- Collaborate cross-functionally to create project roadmaps for delightful and accessible user experiences
- Participate in cross-organizational efforts with other engineering teams
- Participate in code reviews to maintain high development standards
- Continuously refactor to improve our code base
About YouMinimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in mobile development, Software Engineering or related experience
- Extensive Experience developing iOS applications
- Extensive Experience with iOS fundamentals, including Swift, Swift UI, UIKit, RxSwift or Combine etc.
- Experience with Networking protocols (RPC, Rest API, Websockets)
- Solid communicator, comfortable seeking and receiving feedback.
- Robust analytical and debugging skills
- A collaborative mindset to be able to partner with engineers, designers, and PMs from multiple teams to co-create impactful solutions while supporting system contributions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive experience working on Apple technologies like Location, push notifications
- SQL knowledge to support databases, familiarity with (GRDB or FMDB) would be a plus.
- Skilled in profiling and performance optimization on mobile platforms.
#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
$195,000—$217,000 USD
WA
$187,000—$208,000 USD
OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI
$180,000—$200,000 USD
All other states
$162,000—$180,000 USD
Top Skills
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