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Software Engineer II, Technical Search Visibility

Instacart
Remote - Canada (ON, AB, BC, or NS only)Updated 5d ago
Base salary
$145k–$153k
Published base salary range
Location
Remote - Canada (ON, AB, BC, or NS only)
Remote eligibility
Employment
Full-time
Mid-level
Role family
Engineering
E-commerce
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About the job

About the Role

Instacart's Marketing Enablement & Technology (MET) team is seeking a Software Engineer II for the Technical Search Visibility pod to build features that enhance search engine visibility and drive organic traffic. You'll develop full-stack features to improve SEO performance across millions of web pages, contribute to data pipelines, and partner with Marketing and Product.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship full SEO and AEO features end-to-end with minimal oversight.
  • Design and ship high-quality full-stack features that enhance search engine visibility, AI answer engine performance, and organic traffic.
  • Apply technical best practices for performant, observable, and cost-aware code.
  • Contribute to data pipelines for SEO and AEO data ingestion, transformation, and delivery.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and marketing partners.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 2–4 years of software engineering experience with proficiency in React, Ruby, Python, PostgreSQL, and SQL.
  • Ability to build and launch complete features end-to-end.
  • Experience with distributed systems and data engineering, including Airflow or DBT.
  • Strong product mindset and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with SEO/AEO, structured data, search engine crawling, Core Web Vitals.
  • Familiarity with AI-powered search engines and LLMs.
  • Experience with big data technologies (Spark, Airflow, Hadoop), NoSQL, and data warehousing (Snowflake, Redshift).
  • Experience with A/B testing frameworks.

Compensation

Base pay range for Canadian candidates: CAN$145,000—$153,000 CAD. Eligible for new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.

Location

Remote within Canada, only in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.

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