Senior Android Engineer, Product Foundations

Overview

About the Role
At Instacart, we believe in fostering an environment where every employee can bring their authentic self to work and contribute to building a community that we're proud to be a part of. In this pivotal role, you'll have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on our Logistics team, driving innovation in the Android Shopper app and Product Foundations systems. The role requires working across the entire app codebase and your contributions will enable the entire mobile development team to work more efficiently and innovate on the future of the Shopper app.

About the Team
The Logistics Serving team is a horizontal group that powers the Logistics of Fulfillment, composed of three domains. The team’s Product Foundations domain focuses on foundational systems such as the state engine powering Shopper work, mobile platform systems, and client-server communication. The team’s Core Dispatch domain handles creating, managing, and offering unique and complex work for Shoppers. Lastly, the Geospatial domain handles ingestion, processing, and providing of complex geospatial data such as Shopper locations, customer service coverage, and more in service of matching shoppers with work, tracking order progress, and improving customer serviceability. Combined, the Logistics Serving team enables many product teams to successfully deliver their projects and features.

About the Job

• ​​Architect, build, and maintain excellent Android applications with clean code.
• Spearhead the development and roadmap of the Android Shopper app's foundations, ensuring stability, reliability and performance for both Shoppers and the development team.
• Participate and drive adoption of new technologies, such as Jetpack Compose or coroutines.
• Contribute to building out cutting-edge features as part of fulfillment logistics initiatives.
• Envision new features and solutions that are inspired, considered, and forward thinking.
• Own important pieces of the product that have high visibility both internally and externally.
• Communicate and collaborate extensively across multiple teams and functions within the company to drive consensus, align goals, and achieve effective cross-functional outcomes.
• Be empowered and responsible for planning, decision making, shipping, and maintaining your surface areas.

About You

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Android development experience with a proven track record of success.
• Experience working on complex Android build pipelines
• Proficient in performance optimization on Android platforms.
• Expertise in Android development technologies, specifically Kotlin.
• Solid understanding of both RxJava and Dagger.
• Proven ability in rigorous unit testing and practical problem-solving.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, capable of collaborating and influencing cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced proficiency in RxJava and Kotlin Coroutines.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog.
• Experience working with Android Location APIs and processing of location data
• Experience working with Gradle
• Experience writing database queries and analyzing data