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.
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Overview
About the Role
Instacart seeks a Senior Solution Architect to own technical design and solutioning responsibilities with our enterprise scale Retailer partners. Solution Architects enjoy an exceptionally exciting career at Instacart; working in a fast-paced environment and developing relationships with enterprise-scale partners. You will thrive on daily opportunities to generate creative solution designs. In this role you’ll enjoy the satisfaction of being a primary technical stakeholder, a liaison between Instacart's Product & Engineering teams, and partner closely with a large variety of technology and business stakeholders. Joining our Solution Architecture team offers a unique opportunity to solve complex challenges as Instacart expands its offering into rapidly growing new markets.
About the Team
Caper.aiis a subsidiary of Instacart and an AI company. It leverages cutting-edge AI and computer vision technology to bring an autonomous shopping experience to the store. Its product, the Caper Cart is an AI-powered smart cart equipped with scales, sensors, touchscreens, and computer vision technology. It is the cornerstone of the Instacart Platform Connected Stores initiative.
Caper builds smart shopping carts powered by deep learning and computer vision to enable a seamless grab-and-go retail experience. Caper’s unique technology is a plug-and-play solution that does not require retail store renovation, operational overhaul, heavy computing, or endless image labeling & training. Retailers purchase intelligent shopping carts, and the entire store is upgraded with cashier-less capabilities!
Caper is one of the fastest-growing retail automation technology products in the market, costs less than 1% of our competition’s infrastructure, and is already widely adopted in the marketplace. Our cross-functional and durable Product team solves hard customer & business problems in ways our customers love.
About the Job
- Own end to end solution design, identify and build around system & business needs, generate solution proposals and drive their execution through to launch
- Build relationships with both technical and business stakeholders at our Enterprise Retail Partners
- Consult and coordinate with multiple internal teams at Instacart ensuring efforts between Product, Design and Engineering teams are well aligned, ensuring project success
- Be a technical expert on the scalable Instacart platform and external facing API’s
- Develop tools, processes and documentation with intent to scale our partnerships and continuously improve solution delivery
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience working as a Software Engineer or Architect
- Strong ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical audiences
- Experience in a client-facing/consulting role
- Experience with code/scripting/automation or data engineering (primarily SQL)
- Proven ability to partner effectively with Technical Project Managers
- Possess a strong sense of ownership
- Experience solving complex business challenges with external stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
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