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Senior Software Engineer II, Commerce Platform
Location
California + 17 moreAll locations: California | Connecticut | District Of Columbia | Hawaii | Illinois | Maine | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | Oregon | Maryland | Massachusetts | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | Texas | Vermont | Virginia | Washington
Posted
112 days ago
Salary
$192K - $242.5K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer II, Commerce Platform
Instacart
• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and highly available backend systems for payment processing. • Implement payment-related APIs and services, ensuring security, reliability, and accuracy at every step of the payment lifecycle. • Lead technical projects that span multiple teams, from initial design to execution and continuous improvement. • Integrate with external payment processors, gateways, wallets, and financial partners while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. • Optimize systems for cost, performance, observability, and operational efficiency. • Collaborate with cross-functional partners across legal, product, data science, finance, operations, and more. • Proactively drive platform improvements and initiatives that impact key business metrics. • Mentor and support fellow engineers, establish best practices, and uphold high standards for code quality and architecture.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar.
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience in high-scale, distributed environments.
- Proficient in backend languages (e.g., Ruby, Go, Java).
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.), caching (Redis, Memcached), and distributed systems.
- Comfortable navigating complex business and technical domains, especially payments, invoicing, billing, or compliance-heavy environments.
- Strong communicator who can lead projects and drive alignment across stakeholders.
- High sense of ownership, capable of working independently, influencing team direction, and mentoring others.
- Strong background in operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
- Hands-on experience driving experimentation and A/B testing when launching new features, with a data-driven approach to measuring and iterating on outcomes.
Benefits
- Remote work options
- New hire equity grant
- Annual refresh grants
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