Senior Android Engineer

We're transforming the grocery industry

Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Since 2012, we've been working towards creating a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together.

Groceries delivered to your door in as little as an hour. It seems simple, right? Well, it's more complex than that. From re-routing deliveries during snowstorms, to connecting customers with coupons and deals for their favorite brands, to updating over half a billion grocery data lines every night...our efforts bring Instacart closer to being the operating system for the grocery industry.

ABOUT THE JOB

• You will be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and responsibility for managing things directly
• Collaboration with product managers, other teams, and both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution
• Shipping high quality solutions with urgency
• Championing Android: educating colleagues about subtleties & unique capabilities of the platform and leveraging them when building new features

• Bachelor's degree in computer science with 7+ years of software development experience and at least 2 years of Android app development experience
• Strong development skills in Java and with Android SDK
• Good general programming and algorithm skills
• A strong sense of ownership
• An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
• Willingness and ablilty to travel internationally based on job requirements
• Experience with RxJava
• Interest in Kotlin
• Data Driven mindset
• Automated testing experience