[Hiring] Senior iOS Engineer @Instacart

Role Description

Instacart’s Stores Intelligence organization is building the operating system for brick-and-mortar grocery. As a Senior iOS Engineer on the In-Store Mode team, you will build the mobile experience that helps people shop in physical grocery stores. Customers plan the trip at home, then use the same app in the aisle to find items, discover deals, and use their loyalty rewards.

• Lead iOS projects end to end, from technical design and rollout strategy through production operations and debugging.
• Shape product requirements by bringing a technical perspective and making trade-offs between scope, quality, and timeline.
• Build and maintain integrations between native iOS code and web content.
• Use AI-assisted and agentic development tools to boost your own and the team's productivity, and suggest improvements to how the team builds.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, data scientists, and PMs across teams to align goals and deliver cross-functional outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in mobile development, software engineering, or related experience.
• Strong experience with iOS fundamentals, including Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency or Combine.
• Experience with networking protocols (RPC, REST API, WebSockets).
• Experience designing for performance, observability, and reliability in production mobile apps, including profiling and monitoring.
• Strong testing discipline, including unit tests for the code you write.

Requirements

• Experience building consumer apps in retail, e-commerce, or marketplace settings.
• Experience building configurable or white-label apps, or shared components used across multiple apps.
• Experience building mobile apps that stay resilient with limited or unreliable connectivity.
• Experience running experiments and A/B tests, and using the results to guide product decisions.
• Experience with Apple frameworks such as Core Location and push notifications.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic coding workflows.
• Experience with WKWebView and native-to-web communication.

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits.
• Remote work flexibility under the Flex First remote work policy.
• Eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.

Company Description

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. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward.