Senior iOS Engineer, Instacart
Order Experience
$166-210k
Salary range dependent on candidate location. Plus new hire equity grant
Online grocery marketplace and grocery tech platform
Be an early applicant
Online grocery marketplace and grocery tech platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$166-210k
Salary range dependent on candidate location. Plus new hire equity grant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where everyone has access to the food they love and have more time to enjoy it together.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in mobile development, Software Engineering or related experience
- Extensive Experience developing iOS applications
- Extensive Experience with iOS fundamentals, including Swift, UIKit, RxSwift, and Swift Concurrency
- Experience with GraphQL
- Experience with unidirectional architecture
Desirable
- Experience working with Ruby
- Experience with e-commerce
- Experience with A/B testing
- Experience with multiplatform solutions, with recommendations on webview utilization
- Skilled in the use of monitoring and observability tools like Datadog
What the job involves
- The Order Experience team is responsible for some of the most essential surfaces in the Instacart application, ensuring customers can build highly customized orders with ease and receive lightning-fast, reliable updates as their orders progress
- As a Senior iOS Engineer on this team, you will help maintain and evolve these mission‑critical features, improving stability and performance while expanding the feature set to support emerging legal requirements, new customization capabilities, and a more flexible ordering workflow
- You will advocate for the best possible user experience, bringing a deep understanding of iOS platform technologies to identify opportunities that make our app more intuitive, responsive, and delightful
- Your expertise will help shape how customers interact with their orders, ensuring every touchpoint feels fast, clear, and trustworthy
- In this role, you'll partner closely with product teams, data scientists, and backend engineers as we continue to scale our services, ensuring that the ordering experience remains seamless, resilient, and deeply user‑centric
- The Core Experience teams are dedicated to creating engaging and straightforward shopping experiences
- You will be part of a team that is at the heart of product innovation, focusing on everything from the user interfaces to the underlying systems that support our web and mobile platforms
- Our team's work is guided by a data-driven methodology that ensures decisions are aligned with consumer needs, helping us move swiftly and efficiently in our development processes
- 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
Our take
Instacart is an online grocery marketplace that operates a pick-up and delivery system in the US and Canada. Unlike standard grocery shopping, Instacart sends a “personal shopper” to your local store to buy your products, who then delivers them straight to your door on the same day via their own car. The company also supplies the Instacart Platform, with services for stores encompassing eCommerce, fulfilment, in-store, ads, and insights.
The increased modernization of society has meant more than ever that consumers are looking to buy their groceries online, making space for apps like Instacart to become daily life staples for years to come. Although the company must compete with other grocery store delivery services, such as Walmart’s own, it has expanded to cover large percentages of US and Canadian households, and is now aligned with over 1,500 retail banners across more than 85,000 locations.
With an expanding partnership with Kroger, Instacart continues to demonstrate why it's a leader in the gorcery delivery space. By powering fast, reliable delivery from neary 2,700 stores and introducing tools like the AI-powered Cart Assistant, Instacart isn't just enhanceing the way millions of families shop but also shaping the future of personalized, convenient grodery expericnes. This deepening collaboration underscores Instacart's ability to drive growth and deliver value to both customers and partners.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 15 rounds)
Nov 2021
$232m
LATE VC
Mar 2021
$265m
LATE VC
Total funding: $2.9bn
Company benefits
- Wellness Tailored to You: Medical, dental, vision, retirement, life & disability coverage right alongside physical & mental wellness programs, memberships and stipends to keep you and your family feeling your best.
- Family Building Benefits: No matter where you are in your family journey, we support you. Our plans cover modern family planning for all. We offer leave for all parents, flexible working schedules and an active Parents@ community.
- Work From Home Stipend: We help outfit your WFH setup and offer reimbursements so you can be your most productive while at home.
- Flexible Time Off: We all recharge differently. Take the time you need with our flexible time off policy and company-wide Self-Checkouts where we encourage everyone to sign off.
- Learning & Development: Whether you're just starting your career or leading teams, we provide customized L&D programs to help you grow and an annual allowance to pursue your development.
- Future Planning: We have you covered as you plan for your future. 401(k) matching in the US and RRSP in Canada, student loan assistance through Peanut Butter, free Rocket Lawyer membership, SoFi & First Republic financial planning and more.
- Four Year Fill-Up: We encourage our tenured employees to take longer breaks and truly unplug by doing something they love – typically four consecutive weeks around the four year mark.
- Community Connection: Support the communities you care about with volunteer weeks and get involved with our social impact program, Instacart Serves.
- Instacart Express Membership: We help keep your fridge stocked. Unlock grocery discounts with our Instacart Beta app while testing our latest features.
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Apoorva Mehta
(Co-Founder & Chairman)Studied Electrical Engineering at University of Waterloo. Worked in Fulfillment Optimisation SDE at Amazon.com before going on to co-found Instacart.
Brandon Leonardo
(Co-Founder)Interned at Cisco Systems as an IT Engineer. Later became a Senior Web Developer at Webs and then a Venture Hacker at Angel List.
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