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About the Role Are you ready to have maximum impact and work on a 0 to 1 product? We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Ad Formats team and build ad experiences on Caper Carts - an AI-powered smart cart equipped with scales, sensors, touchscreens, and computer vision technology. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing core technologies that bring Instacart’s Retail Media business onto Caper Carts, including indexing, serving, rendering, eventing, billing, reporting, experimentation, and more. You will also work closely with product managers, product designers, data scientists, ML engineers, product marketers, and other cross-functional partners. The Ads for Caper team is a newly formed team dedicated to bringing inspiration to the Caper shopping journey. We do this by connecting advertisers with consumers at the right time and place through delightful interactions. We will be building net new experiences and powering them with both existing and new backend ads systems. Come in on the ground floor and help build the team, scale the infrastructure, and support the rapid growth of Caper. We are operating with a startup mentality, and you should as well. You will initially be part of a small team that will grow with the product. We want to move quickly in order to iterate and find product market fit, while maintaining quality and craft. You will primarily be responsible for backend design and implementation, but should not be afraid to jump into other areas to problem solve. In this role, you will be working cross-organizationally with other engineering teams, as well as cross-functionally with product, design, data science, and marketing to define requirements and long-term roadmap. You will also be responsible for holding the technical bar on the team, ensuring code quality, performance, and establishing coding standards. You will have the opportunity to think and plan strategically for both the product and technical roadmaps.About the Team
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