[Hiring] Staff Android Engineer @Instacart

Role Description

We are seeking an Android Engineer to serve as a technical lead within the Pick & Deliver organization. You will help shape and deliver high-visibility mobile experiences that support retailers throughout the process of picking customer orders, directly influencing the speed, quality, and reliability of the end-user experience.

• Lead the technical direction and execution of Android experiences that support retailers and shoppers across all phases of picking an order.
• Design, build, test, and maintain high-quality Android applications using modern technologies including Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and RxJava.
• Partner with Product, Design, Backend Engineering, iOS Engineering, retailers, and external vendors to define solutions for complex operational and customer needs.
• Own projects from technical discovery through delivery, balancing immediate retailer priorities with long-term platform health, scalability, and maintainability.
• Improve application performance, reliability, observability, and developer experience through profiling, instrumentation, architectural improvements, and thoughtful technical debt reduction.
• Provide technical leadership across the Pick & Deliver organization by facilitating design discussions, mentoring engineers, establishing engineering best practices, and helping teams make clear, durable decisions.
• Contribute to a roadmap that includes new picking models, expansion to additional retailers and markets, and investments in the Android platform and operational scale.
• This is a highly collaborative role in a changing environment. Priorities may shift as retailer needs, product opportunities, and operational challenges evolve.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience developing and shipping Android applications.
• Strong proficiency in Kotlin and demonstrated experience with modern Android development practices, including Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and reactive programming with RxJava or an equivalent framework.
• Experience leading the technical execution of complex, cross-functional software projects from design through production launch.
• Experience designing maintainable Android architectures and improving application performance, reliability, testing, monitoring, or observability.
• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Product, Design, Backend Engineering, iOS Engineering, and external stakeholders to deliver customer-facing products.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions, align stakeholders, and communicate risks and tradeoffs clearly.

Requirements

• Experience building mobile products for retail, logistics, fulfillment, delivery, workforce, or other operational environments.
• Experience supporting multiple product teams, retailers, markets, or high-priority initiatives at the same time.
• Experience with Android performance profiling, application startup optimization, crash reduction, instrumentation, or large-scale observability.
• Experience contributing to mobile platform strategy, shared components, developer tooling, or migration to modern Android technologies.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams without direct authority.
• Experience working with external partners, vendors, or enterprise customers to understand operational needs and deliver reliable solutions.

Benefits

• 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.
• Eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.
• Base pay ranges for Canadian based candidates: CAN $229,000 — $241,500 CAD.