Senior Engineering Manager, Activation & Engagement
Core
Lead a team of 10–12 engineers to own the end-to-end Shopper Activation & Engagement lifecycle, including onboarding, activation, finding work, and platform compliance for Instacart's grocery delivery marketplace.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (Activation & Engagement)
Builds
Reliable, scalable systems for shopper onboarding, batch acceptance, marketplace efficiency, and compliance within the grocery delivery platform.
Domain
Grocery delivery marketplace, multi-sided platform, workforce engagement
Required skills
Software engineering management, distributed systems architecture, roadmap planning, cross-functional stakeholder leadership, incident response, AI-assisted engineering workflows, team talent development
Preferred skills
Multi-sided marketplace experience, mobile-heavy product areas, AI/ML product integration, Ruby on Rails, Python, Golang, Postgres, Redis, AWS
Responsibilities
Drive multi-quarter roadmap planning across competing priorities; Partner with Product, Design, Legal, and Operations to align on high-impact work; Develop and retain engineering talent; Set technical direction for reliability and observability; Lead cross-functional planning and negotiation
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC manager
