Senior Software Engineer II - Enterprise Foundations

The posting, as Instacart wrote it

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.

Overview

Enterprise Foundations is the engineering team responsible for the architectural and integration work that allows Instacart's Retailer Platform to scale across the world's largest grocers. Our work spans omnichannel integrations — bringing products like FoodStorm catering and Caper Carts onto unified Instacart platform rails — enterprise extensibility (sandbox environments, configuration systems, retailer-facing tooling), and the cross-cutting data isolation work that allows Instacart's ML and Data Engineering teams to safely build bespoke models on top of the platform. As Instacart's enterprise retail business expands to hundreds of partner brands and new international markets, this team's work is foundational to how the platform matures.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to own and ship one of the team's most complex multi-quarter work-streams — at the seam of omnichannel identity, international storefront search expansions, and partner-owned integrations that we ultimately operate ourselves. You'll be the technical DRI for your area: framing the problem, designing the systems, driving the rollout, and codifying the patterns so the rest of Enterprise Platform can adopt them without your direct involvement. You'll work closely with Staff engineers on the team who set the team-wide architectural thesis, and partner across Connected Stores, Professional Services, Commerce, Search, Data Engineering, and ML to land integrations that hold up across organizational boundaries.

About the Job

• Own a multi-quarter integration workstream end to end — for example, unified customer identity across FoodStorm and Storefront Pro, international storefront and search expansion for enterprise retailers, or consolidation of bespoke retailer-vertical services onto shared Instacart platform rails — from problem framing through desi

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direct support.

• Demonstrated ability to operate in ambiguous, high-growth environments where partner roadmaps and integration commitments are still maturing, with a record of driving clarity and forward motion through that ambiguity.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct domain experience in commerce platforms, omnichannel retail, OMS, POS, catering systems, or connected-store / in-store technology.
• Experience with customer identity, account linking, or SSO integrations across multiple consumer-facing surfaces.
• Experience building or scaling search, retrieval, or ranking systems, including integrations with third-party search providers.
• Background working on international expansion — localization, data residency, multi-region infrastructure, or in-country compliance requirements.
• Experience leading vendor or partner-owned integrations where the system is ultimately operated and owned by the integrating team.
• Experience designing per-tenant configuration, isolation, and extensibility for multi-tenant enterprise 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 rea d 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
$230,000 — $242,500 USD

WA
$220,000 — $232,000 USD

OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI
$211,000 — $222,500 USD

All other states
$192,000 — $202,500 USD