Senior Android Engineer

About Instacart

Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup

Tech

From a technology point of view, our platform is complex, rapidly scaling and processing millions of transactions in real-time all of the time. Our technology coupled with operational expertise enables Instacart to deliver fresh groceries in as little as an hour. We use a modern stack including Ruby/Rails, Python, React and many more technologies.

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 (but not required) with 2+ years of software development experience and at least 3 years of Android app development experience - Strong development skills in Java and with Android SDK, and good general programming and algorithm skills - Exposure to Kotlin (although experience with Kotlin is strongly preferred) - Experience with RXJava - A strong sense of ownership - An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions Desired: - Dagger - Retrofit - Data Driven mindset - Automated testing experience

Skills

• Android
• Java
• Kotlin