Senior iOS Engineer, Order Experience

We're transforming the grocery industry

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.

Instacart is a Flex First team

There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. 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.

Overview

The Order Experience team is responsible for some of the most essential surfaces in the Instacart application, ensuring customers can build highly customized orders with ease and receive lightning-fast, reliable updates as their orders progress. As a Senior iOS Engineer on this team, you will help maintain and evolve these mission‑critical features, improving stability and performance while expanding the feature set to support emerging legal requirements, new customization capabilities, and a more flexible ordering workflow.

You will advocate for the best possible user experience, bringing a deep understanding of iOS platform technologies to identify opportunities that make our app more intuitive, responsive, and delightful. Your expertise will help shape how customers interact with their orders, ensuring every touchpoint feels fast, clear, and trustworthy.

In this role, you'll partner closely with product teams, data scientists, and backend engineers as we continue to scale our services, ensuring that the ordering experience remains seamless, resilient, and deeply user‑centric.

The Core Experience teams are dedicated to creating engaging and straightforward shopping experiences. You will be part of a team that is at the heart of product innovation, focusing on everything from the user interfaces to the underlying systems that support our web and mobile platforms. Our team's work is guided by a data-driven methodology that ensures decisions are aligned with consumer needs, helping us move swiftly and efficiently in our development processes.

About the Job

• Architect, build, and maintain complex iOS applications with clean code.
• Integrate with backend services to make sure we are delivering a great mobile user experience that is super-fast for end users.
• Own important pieces of the product that have high visibility both internally and externally.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain high development standards
• Communicate and collaborate extensively across multiple teams and functions within the company to drive consensus, align goals, and achieve effective cross-functional outcomes.

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in mobile development, Software Engineering or related experience
• Extensive Experience developing iOS applications
• Extensive Experience with iOS fundamentals, including Swift, UIKit, RxSwift, and Swift Concurrency.
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with unidirectional architecture

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Ruby
• Experience with e-commerce
• Experience with A/B testing
• Experience with multiplatform solutions, with recommendations on webview utilization
• Skilled in the use of monitoring and observability tools like Datadog.

#LI-Remote

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 remote work policy here.

Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.

For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CA, NY, CT, NJ $199,000—$210,000 USD WA $191,000—$201,000 USD OR, DE, ME, MA, MD, NH, RI, VT, DC, PA, VA, CO, TX, IL, HI $183,000—$193,000 USD All other states $166,000—$175,000 USD