Instacart

Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup

Android Engineer

Location
San francisco, CA
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
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About the role

Responsibilities

  • 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

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science is preferred with 2-3 years of software development experience and at least 2 years of Android app development experience
  • Strong development skills in Java and with Android SDK, and 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

Desired

  • Experience with RxJava
  • Interest in Kotlin
  • Data Driven mindset
  • Automated testing experience

About Instacart

Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Instacart’s same-day delivery and pickup services bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada in as fast as an hour. Since its founding in 2012, Instacart has become an essential service for millions of families, while also serving as an immediate, flexible earnings opportunity for hundreds of thousands of shoppers across North America. The company partners with more than 350 retailers and delivers from more than 25,000 stores across more than 5,500 cities in North America. Today, Instacart is accessible to more than 85% of households in the U.S. and more than 70% of households in Canada.

Instacart
Founded:2012
Team Size:3000
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Brandon Leonardo
Brandon Leonardo
Founder
Apoorva Mehta
Apoorva Mehta
Chairman & Founding CEO
Max Mullen
Max Mullen
Founder