Senior Android Engineer, Growth
Job description
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
Instacart’s Growth Lifecycle Incentives team builds coupon experiences, one of the company’s core revenue drivers. We own the end-to-end experience for coupon storing, serving, ranking, and merchandising in app, web and CRM, partnering closely with Product, Data Science and Machine Learning Engineers, Retailer Managers to deliver features that make the coupon more valuable and accessible.
We’re looking for a Senior Android Engineer to design and deliver fast, reliable, and delightful Android experiences that directly impact how users interact with coupons every day. You’ll own high-visibility features end to end, collaborate closely with backend, iOS, design, product, data, and retailer partners, and help raise the bar for code quality, performance, and user experience across our Android surfaces.
You’ll join a team of 18 engineers operating in a fast-paced environment. If you thrive on tackling complex problems, balancing new feature work with retailer-driven requests and technical debt, and rolling up your sleeves to deliver impact, this role is for you.
About the Job
- Design, build, and maintain Android features using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, modern Android components and composable declarative state management architecture.
- Implement pixel-perfect UIs that faithfully match designs and scale across devices, with a focus on accessibility and internationalization.
- Integrate with backend services via GraphQL, REST, and WebSockets to deliver resilient offline and real-time experiences.
- Own feature areas end to end—from technical design and instrumentation to rollout, monitoring, and iteration—driving measurable gains in picker speed and accuracy.
- Participate in code reviews, technical design reviews, and release planning to uphold high engineering standards and accelerate team velocity.
- Profile, benchmark, and optimize app performance; track stability and quality with observability and crash monitoring tools.
- Contribute features across codebases owned by other teams, aligning with domain owners on design and direction.
- Collaborate with backend, iOS, product, design, data, and retailer stakeholders to align goals, manage trade-offs, and deliver cross-functional outcomes in a rapidly evolving environment.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 4+ years of professional experience building and shipping Android applications.
- Proficiency in Kotlin and Android fundamentals, including Jetpack Compose and traditional Views/XML.
- Hands-on experience with concurrency and reactive paradigms: Kotlin Coroutines and RxJava.
- Experience integrating mobile apps with backend services using RPC, RESTful APIs, and WebSockets.
- Demonstrated debugging and analytical skills using Android Studio tooling, profilers, and logs.
- Proven track record contributing to code reviews and technical design documents with cross-functional partners.
- Experience instrumenting apps for analytics, crash reporting, and performance monitoring.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog and Sentry.
- Expertise in profiling and performance optimization on Android (startup, rendering, memory, and network performance).
- Familiarity with feature flagging, staged rollouts, and A/B testing on mobile.
- Eagerness to ramp up on adjacent platforms (iOS, web) when the team's priorities call for cross-platform contributions
- Experience building large-scale, multi-tenant enterprise apps or operations tools.
- Demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly in unfamiliar domains, align with domain owners, and implement features consistent with the domain's architecture.
- Exposure to AI-assisted development and agentic coding workflows.
- Domain experience in coupon or growth systems.
#LI-Remote
Instacart provides 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. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.