Solution Architect

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.

OVERVIEW

Instacart seeks a 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 member, a liaison between Instacart’s Product & Engineering teams, and partner closely with a large variety of technology and business customers. 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 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
• Partner 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

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• Possess a strong sense of ownership
• Experience solving complex business challenges with external customers
• 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 track record of partnering effectively with Technical Project Managers