Software Engineer II, - Ads
Core
Building and shipping end-to-end publisher-facing features for Instacart's Carrot Ads platform, including APIs, serving inputs, reporting, and retailer control surfaces.
Role type
Mid-level backend software engineer (ad tech)
Builds
Publisher advertising platform (Carrot Ads) for enterprise retail partners
Domain
Retail media / Ad tech
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Backend development, API design, distributed systems, observability, testing, debugging, cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
Ad tech experience, event streaming (Kafka), cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), data reconciliation, partner-facing API development
Technologies
Go, Ruby, Python, Kafka, AWS, GCP
Responsibilities
Build and ship publisher-facing features end to end, extend Connect/Carrot Ads API with robust contracts and documentation, build retailer control surfaces for pricing and ad-load, strengthen reporting and data integrity, raise reliability and observability, debug partner-facing issues, collaborate across Product and horizontal Ads teams
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC
