Senior Software Engineer, Rosie

OVERVIEW

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a senior software engineer your focus will be building new services, automating business processes, integrating with third party partners, and helping refactor the existing platform to maintain performance as we continue to scale. You will be supported by best-in-class peers in design, engineering, testing, and devops who are all on the same mission.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Rosie is an industry leading online grocery shopping platform for mobile and web. Rosie launched in July 2013 and today enables customers to shop online from their favorite local stores for same-day delivery or in-store pickup. Rosie partners with local retailers and their wholesalers to provide e-commerce, delivery opportunities, omni-channel marketing and deep data services. IBM selected Rosie as the Top Startup in North America in its 2014 IBM Smartcamp Competition.

ABOUT THE JOB

• We work in small teams with significant ownership and autonomy over your project
• Design, implement, and ship high quality features with a strong sense of urgency and accountability
• Work closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and peer engineering teams to define project requirements and execution plans
• Ensure that system designs including APIs, deployment architecture, and dependency selection result in highly scalable, robust solutions that minimize support costs and improve an outstanding customer experience
• Contribute broadly to Instacart’s success by exercising your freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives

ABOUT YOU

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering. 
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Software Engineering, Application Development, Computer Science, or similar.
• Experience making architectural decisions and upholding the values and standards of the development team. 
• Expert understanding of Ruby on Rails. 
• Experience refactoring code. 
• Experience building RESTful web services. 
• Experience building unit tests. 
• Strong understanding of SQL, database design and performance, entity relationships, and normalization. 
• Experience with ORM and optimizing query performance. 
• Familiar with version control best practices (Git). 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience using issue tracking systems like JIRA.
• Familiarity with AWS, cloud based hosting, and serverless computing. 
• Experience collaborating with a design team. 
• Experience collaborating with a QA team. 
• Experience with search engines like SOLR or ElasticSearch. 

Join us and help Instacart grow!

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