Software Engineering Manager – Core Shopping, Mid-Level (Remote)

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Job Summary:

Instacart is transforming the grocery industry by providing essential services for grocery delivery. The Senior Engineering Manager for Core Shopping Experiences will lead engineering efforts to enhance shopping flow and improve customer engagement through innovative technical solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute a multi-year technical vision.

• Guide system design at scale, enabling technical excellence to meet user and business needs.

• Partner with L7+ engineers and technical peers to ensure cohesive systems spanning discovery, shopping, and recommendation.

• Guide engineers in adopting best practices for design, development, and scalability.

• Ensure delivery of high-quality systems with clear expectations on metrics like latency, incidents, reliability, and product polish.

• Partner with cross-functional leaders (PM, ML, DS) to manage time-sensitive business needs and execute innovative projects.

• Foster a culture where engineers find growth, pride, and ownership in their work.

• Build an inclusive team while mentoring engineers across levels.

• Lead hiring initiatives as the team expands its scope and ownership.

• Partner with product managers, data scientists, and machine learning experts to balance short-term priorities with long-term technical strategy.

• Ensure the team builds strong integration with personalization, ranking, and relevance systems managed by horizontal teams.

• Act as a liaison for your team to represent ongoing progress, challenges, and solutions at the leadership and organizational level.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Proven track record leading teams in high-growth, fast-paced environments.

• 4+ years managing a team of 10+ engineers across platforms like backend, iOS, Android, and web.

• Expertise in technical vision development for scalable systems.

• Experience in search, recommendation systems, or high-visibility client-facing products.

• Data-informed decision-making grounded in technical rigor.

• Exceptional cross-functional collaboration skills—easily communicating with PMs, ML engineers, and designers.

• Familiarity with engineering excellence metrics (incidents, bugs, latency, scalability, quality assurance) and a track record of defining engineering quality north stars and holding teams accountable to outcomes.

Preferred:

• Technical expertise at the Staff+ level, with a background in systems architecture and scalable backend infrastructure.

• Strong background in full-stack or backend systems, with knowledge of API design for client integrations.

• Experience balancing urgent business goals with long-term technical strategy.

• Experience building robust engineering excellence processes involving latency, bugs, scalability, and quality goals.

Company:

Instacart is an online grocery platform that offers same-day delivery and pickup services for retailers and consumers. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Public Company. Instacart has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.