Senior Software Engineer, Customers, Front End

North American leader in online grocery delivery and e-commerce, partnering with 350+ retailers across 25,000+ stores.
Frontend
Senior Software Engineer
In-Person
1,000 - 5,000 Employees
3+ years of experience
E-Commerce · Consumer

Description For Senior Software Engineer, Customers, Front End

Instacart, the leading North American online grocery delivery platform, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Frontend team. This role presents an exciting opportunity to work on web products used by millions of customers annually and trusted by major US retailers for grocery delivery websites. The position involves working with React and Redux in ES6+, built with Webpack and using JS styles. The team is actively modernizing their front end codebase and improving product quality on web, while also contributing to the open source community through their internal libraries like the Snacks component library.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you'll be part of a small, impactful team with significant ownership in setting best practices and elevating the frontend development standards. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and various stakeholders to drive solutions from conception to deployment. The role requires strong technical expertise in modern JavaScript frameworks and build systems, combined with a passion for creating scalable frontend systems.

Instacart's platform serves as an essential service for millions of families while providing flexible earning opportunities for hundreds of thousands of shoppers across North America. The company has experienced remarkable growth since its founding in 2012, now partnering with over 350 retailers and delivering from more than 25,000 stores across 5,500+ cities. Their service reaches over 85% of US households and 70% of Canadian households, making this an opportunity to work on technology that impacts millions of users daily.

The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical and debugging skills, experience with large-scale frontend systems, and the ability to balance rapid delivery with high-quality implementation. This role offers the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives while working with cutting-edge technologies in a fast-paced, startup environment.

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Responsibilities For Senior Software Engineer, Customers, Front End

  • Own best practices and raise the front end bar for your team
  • Work with other Front End engineers to improve product and code quality
  • Work closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders
  • Maintain high engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebase
  • Ship high quality, scalable and robust solutions
  • Drive organization-wide initiatives

Requirements For Senior Software Engineer, Customers, Front End

React
JavaScript
Node.js
TypeScript
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering OR equivalent work experience
  • Strong knowledge of modern Javascript framework (React, Vue, Angular2)
  • Strong knowledge of modern front-end build systems (Webpack, ES6, Babel)
  • Strong knowledge of front-end testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha, Enzyme)
  • Experience working with large codebase on cross-functional team
  • Willingness to learn back-end frameworks (Ruby on Rails and SQL/ActiveRecord)
  • Self-motivation and startup environment enjoyment
  • Strong sense of ownership
  • Ability to balance urgency with high quality solutions

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