Instacart Remote - Canada - (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only Posted 2026-10-26

This listing's locations Remote - Canada - (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only

Workplace Remote

Compensation CAD 168000-177500 (period not stated)

Software Engineering

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.

Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work-whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop-while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. instacart.Instacart is seeking a backend engineer with demonstrated success building highly reliable, performant and scalable software to shape the platform powering real-world, real-time processes. The Logistics Platform team owns the execution layer of Instacart’s fulfillment system across the globe, including batching, routing, dispatch, and shopper pay. A year from now, shoppers get efficient and fulfilling work, retailers and consumer brands improve their value proposition, and customers receive their orders on time and to their satisfaction.





Technical design for high-impact projects and initiatives is led, with logistics problems across the consumer marketplace and enterprise space solved through shipped features

Platform best practices are driven through alignment with product, compliance and engineering stakeholders

AI-assisted tooling and workflows raise day-to-day productivity for you and the team, and engineers are mentored toward a higher bar for code quality, testing, and operational practices

Fluency in at least one backend language (we use Ruby, Python and Go; Ruby experience not required)

- Strong working knowledge of services/API design (REST/RPC), databases, and system design patterns and principles for distributed, scalable systems
- Experience building and operating asynchronous, event-driven systems in production
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Experience building software for fulfillment, logistics, or e-commerce

Regular use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, etc

Experience building systems subject to regulatory or financial compliance

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 work from home policy here instacart.Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants.

📌 Senior Software Development Engineer - Remote (Canada)
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📍 Canada