Instacart
iOS Engineer, Shopper App
Job Summary
This role requires an experienced iOS Engineer responsible for developing, architecting, and maintaining complex iOS applications with high performance and reliability. The candidate will focus on implementing user interfaces, integrating with backend services, and collaborating across teams to deliver impactful features. A strong background in iOS fundamentals, Swift, networking, and performance optimization is essential. The position offers flexible remote work options and competitive benefits, emphasizing collaboration and technical excellence in a fast-paced environment.
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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.
About the Role
As an iOS Engineer at Instacart, you will play a key role in developing features for our Shopper iOS app. With hundreds of thousands of Shoppers depending on Instacart for their work, your contributions will be crucial in scaling and improving the mobile experience to cater to their specific needs. This position focuses on leading the architecture, design, and development of our iOS application, ensuring they provide the high performance and reliability our Shoppers depend on.
About the Team
The Shopper team develops and manages our Shopper app, used by hundreds of thousands of shoppers every day to fulfill customer orders. The team oversees the entire process, from onboarding new shoppers to implementing in-store picking technology and enabling last-mile delivery navigation to ensure groceries reach customers' homes efficiently.
Overview of the Shopper teams that are currently hiring
In-store Team: This team focuses on developing Instacart’s picking technology and providing shoppers the tools to be more efficient at enabling quality orders for our customers. Example of things we build - In-store navigation experience for Shoppers, a seamless replacement flow with machine learning optimizations, and innovative features like StoreView, leveraging computer vision to improve our intelligent systems.
Delivery Team: This team handles the Instacart shopper’s experience after in-store checkout through dropping off the order at a customer’s address. We own the navigational process and all aspects of the handoff experience, including surfaces like customer geolocation, identity verification, handling unattended deliveries, and returns. Our primary goal is to optimize for perfect deliveries that are facilitated on time and without interruption, and we contribute to the company’s overall growth by driving additional profit on each order.
- Architect, build, and maintain complex iOS applications with clean code.
- Implement perfect UIs that match designs.
- Integrate with backend services to make sure we are delivering a great mobile user experience that is super-fast for end users.
- Own important pieces of the product that have high visibility both internally and externally.
- Participate in code reviews to maintain high development standards
- Communicate and collaborate extensively across multiple teams and functions within the company to drive consensus, align goals, and achieve effective cross-functional outcomes.
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of iOS development experience.
- Extensive Experience with iOS fundamentals, including Swift, Swift UI, UIKit, RxSwift or Combine etc.
- Experience with Networking protocols (RPC, Rest API, Websockets)
- Proven ability in rigorous unit testing and practical problem-solving.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, capable of collaborating and influencing cross-functional teams.
- Solid communicator, comfortable seeking and receiving feedback.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog.
- Skilled in profiling and performance optimization on mobile platforms.
- Experience working on Apple technologies like Location, push notifications
- The ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, designers, and PMs across multiple teams to co-develop impactful solutions while contributing to system improvements.
#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.
Instacart
A grocery delivery service allowing users to order from local stores and have items delivered by personal shoppers.
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