Instacart · 5 hours ago
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Ads Solutions
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$260K/yr - $289K/yr
10+ years expInstacart is transforming the grocery industry by providing essential delivery services. The Senior Software Engineering Manager for Ads Solutions will lead the engineering team focused on developing innovative advertising solutions that enhance consumer engagement and drive revenue growth.
Delivery ServiceE-CommerceGroceryShopping
Responsibilities
Own the vision and multi-quarter roadmap for Ads Solutions engineering across Sponsored Products, Display Ads, Promotions/Discounts, and Caper Ads, balancing consumer trust, advertiser ROI, and revenue growth
Lead, mentor, and scale an organization of 20+ engineers (including one manager); drive recruiting, career development, performance management, and an inclusive, high-ownership culture
Raise the technical bar across backend services, mobile and web clients, and the ground-truth eventing/measurement stack; ensure reliability, low latency, privacy, and data quality for ads experiences
Drive end-to-end execution in partnership with Ads Serving, ML, Measurement, Ads Manager, and Consumer teams; align on APIs, contracts, experimentation, and success metrics to ship at pace
Establish operational excellence with clear OKRs, program planning, on-call quality, incident reviews, and continuous improvement to deliver predictably in a fast-moving environment
Partner with Product and Ads Sales on customer development, launch readiness, adoption, and performance; iterate rapidly using experiment results and customer feedback to improve engagement, conversion, and revenue
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing engineers, with a track record leading teams of 15+ and delivering complex consumer-facing products
Experience building and operating large-scale consumer or marketplace systems across distributed backend services and at least one client platform (iOS, Android, or web)
Demonstrated ability to define multi-quarter roadmaps and OKRs and deliver measurable outcomes (e.g., improvements to engagement, conversion, or revenue)
Experience owning product instrumentation/eventing and experimentation or measurement frameworks used for monetization, optimization, or billing accuracy
Preferred
Direct experience with Ads Solutions/Formats such as Sponsored Products, Display, and Promotions, and familiarity with ad serving, ranking, pacing, or optimization systems
Knowledge of the ads ecosystem, including auction dynamics, budget and flight management, attribution/measurement, and brand safety
Prior leadership of organizations of 20+ engineers across multiple teams in a high-growth, cross-functional environment
Technical depth with Ruby on Rails, Swift, Kotlin and/or React
Experience partnering with enterprise or retail sales and go-to-market teams to drive product adoption and performance
Benefits
New hire equity grant
Annual refresh grants
Company
Instacart
Instacart is an online grocery platform that offers same-day delivery and pickup services for retailers and consumers.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Instacart has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (156)
2024 (173)
2023 (111)
2022 (159)
2021 (170)
2020 (59)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.92BKey Investors
T. Rowe PriceTiger Global ManagementD1 Capital Partners
2023-09-19IPO
2021-11-01Private Equity· $232M
2021-09-05Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Chris Rogers
Chief Executive Officer
Brandon Leonardo
Co-Founder
Recent News
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