Senior Android Engineer II

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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.

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Overview

Instacart’s Fulfillment Services organization builds the products that help our retail partners grow e-commerce revenue. Within this org, the Enterprise Picking & Tools team powers the shift-based workforces that pick items, stage orders, and hand them off to customers or delivery partners. We’re investing in new picking flows, expanding into new markets, and scaling the platform that underpins our partners’ operational success. We’re looking for a Senior Android Engineer to architect and deliver fast, reliable, and delightful Android experiences that directly impact how retailers’ associates pick orders 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 tight-knit team of 8 engineers (5 backend, 2 Android, 1 iOS) 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

• Architect, build, and maintain complex Android features using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and modern Android components.

• Implement pixel-perfect UIs that faithfully match designs and scale across devices, with a focus on accessibility and internationalization.

• Integrate with backend services via RPC, 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.

• 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

• 5+ 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.

• Experience building large-scale, multi-tenant enterprise apps or operations tools.

• Exposure to AI-assisted development and agentic coding workflows.

• Domain experience in retail, logistics, or fulfillment 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.

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 US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CA, NY, CT, NJ
$230,000—$242,500 USD

WA
$220,000—$232,000 USD

OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI
$211,000—$222,500 USD

All other states
$192,000—$202,500 USD