Engineering Manager, Android

We're transforming the grocery industry

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.

Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.

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Overview

About the Role

You will help lead the development of the Android applications running on our groundbreaking AI solutions for the brick-and-mortar store to revolutionize the overall in-store experience.

Instacart’s goal has always been to support grocers and give retailers of all sizes an edge in an increasingly competitive industry, while creating a seamless experience for customers and shoppers. With Caper AI we bring together online and offline shopping to create a completely new in-store shopping experience for both customers and Instacart shoppers alike.

To be successful in this role, you should have extensive experience in customer-facing Android application development, and you must also be an innovator, learner and team player. You need to have experience leading a small to medium-sized diverse team of developers and managing projects with cross-functional partners.

About the Team

Caper.ai is a subsidiary of Instacart and an AI company. It leverages cutting-edge AI and computer vision technology to bring the autonomous shopping experience to in-store. Its product, the Caper Cart - an AI-powered smart cart equipped with scales, sensors, touchscreens, and computer vision technology, is the cornerstone of the Instacart Platform Connected Stores initiative.

Caper’s unique technology is a plug-and-play solution that does not require retail store renovation, operational overhaul, heavy compute, and endless image labeling & training. Retailers simply purchase smart shopping carts and the entire store is upgraded with cashier-less capabilities!

Caper is one of the fastest-growing retail automation technology products in the market, costs less than 1% of our competitions’ infrastructure and is already widely adopted in the marketplace. Our cross-functional and durable Product team solves hard customer & business problems in ways that our customers love.

About the Job

• Lead and grow a medium (7-10) Android development team at Caper.ai focused on the core shopping experience
• Work closely with product, design, hardware to deliver complex projects with ambitious deadlines
• Drive the team’s strategy, roadmap, and deliver innovative production solutions on a sector-defining product
• Up-level your team by introducing best practices for development and testing of your team’s applications
• Adapt the team’s focus in concert with evolving business needs
• Work with some of the best Android engineers who have crafted apps recognized by Google as best-in-class for design.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software development, with at least 4 years working on Android applications (Java, Kotlin)
• Currently managing a team of 5+ developers for at least one year
• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment making difficult prioritization decisions
• Proactive, motivated, and self-driven.
• Experience with performance optimization on Android
• Solid expertise in Android development technologies such as Kotlin and Java
• Familiarity with distributed system design and gRPC
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with development of kiosk applications/hardware products
• Experience with Point-of-Sale systems and/or Payment Terminals
• Familiarity with No-SQL databases, specifically MongoDB/Realm
• Experience with Datadog or other Observability systems
• Familiarity with Snowflake
• Experience with Internet-of-Things technologies (e.g., AWS IoT offerings) and protocols (e.g., MQTT)

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.