Senior Engineering Manager, Caper Mobile Experience

OVERVIEW
About The Role

You will help lead the development of the Android applications running on our groundbreaking AI solutions for the brick-and-mortar store to revolutionize the overall in-store experience.

Instacart’s goal has always been to support grocers and give retailers of all sizes an edge in an increasingly competitive industry, while creating a seamless experience for customers and shoppers. With Caper AI we bring together online and offline shopping to create a completely new in-store shopping experience for both customers and Instacart shoppers alike.

To be successful in this role, you should have extensive experience in customer-facing Android application development,  and you must also be an innovator, learner and team player. You need to have experience leading and growing a large diverse team of developers and managing projects with many cross-functional partners.

ABOUT THE JOB

You will:

• Lead and grow the Android development team at Caper.ai
• Work closely with product, design, hardware and a large number of cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects with ambitious deadlines
• Drive the team’s strategy, roadmap and deliver innovative production solutions on a sector defining product 
• Introduce best practices for development and testing of your team’s applications
• Establish strong operational practices (on-call, release processes etc.)
• Work with some of the best Android engineers who have crafted apps recognized by Google as best-in-class for design.

ABOUT YOU

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software development, with at least 4 years working on Android applications (Java, Kotlin)
• Currently managing a team of 10+ developers for at least one year
• Experience with the Android OS
• Familiarity with distributed system design and gRPC
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with development of kiosk applications/hardware products
• Experience with Point-of-Sale systems and/or Payment Terminals
• Familiarity with No-SQL databases, specifically MongoDB/Realm
• Experience with Datadog or other Observability systems
• Familiarity with Snowflake
• Experience with Internet-of-Things technologies (e.g., AWS IoT offerings) and protocols (e.g., MQTT)

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