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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.
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As an iOS Engineer at Instacart, you will play a key role in developing features for our Shopper iOS app. With hundreds of thousands of Shoppers depending on Instacart f or their work, your contributions will be crucial in scaling and improving the mobile experience to cater to their specific needs. This position focuses on leading the architecture, design, and development of our iOS application, ensuring they provide the high performance and reliability our Shoppers depend on. The in-store team is part of the Fulfillment/Shopper org and focuses on developing Instacart’s picking technology and providing shoppers the tools to be more efficient at enabling quality orders for our customers. Example of things we build - In-store navigation experience for Shoppers, a seamless replacement flow with machine learning optimizations, and innovative features like StoreView, leveraging computer vision to improve our intelligent systems.
- Architect, build, and maintain complex iOS applications with clean code.
- Integrate with backend services to make sure we are delivering a great mobile user experience that is super-fast for end users.
- Own important pieces of the product that have high visibility both internally and externally.
- Participate in code reviews to maintain high development standards
- Communicate and collaborate extensively across multiple teams and functions within the company to drive consensus, align goals, and achieve effective cross-functional outcomes.
About YouMinimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in mobile development, Software Engineering or related experience
- Extensive Experience developing iOS applications
- Extensive Experience with iOS fundamentals, including Swift, Swift UI, UIKit, RxSwift, Swift Concurrency or Combine etc.
- Experience with Networking protocols (RPC, Rest API, Websockets)
- Solid communicator, comfortable seeking and receiving feedback.
- Robust analytical and debugging skills
- A collaborative mindset to be able to partner with engineers, designers, and PMs from multiple teams to co-create impactful solutions while supporting system contributions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on Apple technologies like Location, Push notifications
- SQL knowledge to run simple queries for support with data-driven decisions.
- Skilled in profiling and performance optimization on mobile platforms.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog.
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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 read more about our benefits offerings here.
For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
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