Senior Software Engineer – Marketing Enablement, Technology

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Senior Software Engineer architecting backend services, APIs, and ETL for Instacart’s paid marketing channels. Leading projects, technical direction, and engineering mentorship.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead complete projects independently across backend services, APIs, and data pipelines
  • Define experimentation, development, and rollout strategies across multiple systems
  • Architect scalable, robust, performant, reliable, and cost-efficient solutions for high-throughput marketing operations
  • Identify and solve underlying technical problems; design reusable abstractions
  • Partner with Marketing and Product stakeholders to influence features, requirements, and technical/product strategy
  • Make trade-offs between complexity, business value, and delivery timelines
  • Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and onboarding
  • Improve team productivity through process improvements and automation

Requirements:

  • 5–8 years of software engineering experience
  • Expert-level proficiency in Python for scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines
  • Proven experience leading complete projects end-to-end, including architecture, implementation, experimentation, and production rollout
  • Deep expertise with Snowflake, SQL, ETL processes, Airflow, and DBT
  • Experience designing for performance, scalability, and robustness
  • Experience implementing observability solutions including logging, metrics, and tracing
  • Strong product thinking and ability to make strategic technical and business trade-offs
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to mentor engineers and drive cross-team alignment
  • Currently hiring candidates in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, or Nova Scotia
  • Preferred: experience with automation frameworks, ad platform APIs, digital marketing operations, cloud cost optimization, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, technical debt modernization, security-by-design, incident response, and AI-assisted development infrastructure

Benefits:

  • New hire equity grant
  • Annual refresh grants
  • Flexible work location: home, office, or coffee shop
  • Regular in-person events
  • Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits