Senior Android Engineer

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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.

Instacart is a Flex First team

There's no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it's from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.

OVERVIEW

ABOUT THE ROLE

At Instacart, our Mobile Engineers are working to delight our customers and empower our shoppers. As a Mobile Engineer at Instacart you will work with our teams to build robust, well-architected applications that simplify the complex challenge of getting our customer's orders from the store to their door. In this role you will work on challenging scaling problems while also crafting the features that will define our industry. You will build in an open collaborative environment serving millions of requests daily.

ABOUT THE TEAM .

Our team is investing heavily in the next-generation of our services. At our velocity and volume-level we need the ability to deploy new products and features faster and better. Join our team and build the best new user experiences anywhere. Our team is creating new architectural designs and new services that couple best-in-class engineering with highly-informed business knowledge.

ABOUT THE JOB

• You will be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for managing things directly
• You will work closely 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
• You will ship high quality, scalable and robust solutions with a sense of urgency
• You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives
• You will educate colleagues about subtleties & unique capabilities of the platform and leveraging them when building new features

ABOUT YOU

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of Android app development experience
• Strong development skills in Kotlin and with Android SDK
• Strong sense of product ownership
• Automated testing experience
• An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• Experience with RxJava
• Solid understanding of various architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVP, MVI
• Strong general programming and algorithm skills
• Data driven mindset

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