OVERVIEW
The Developer Union is partnering with Instacart. We're looking for seasoned Full-Stack Engineers with experience in building web-based applications and tools to join our fast moving team. We work on a range of interesting and challenging problems, from supporting thousands of concurrent shoppers and processing millions of data points in real time, to building tools for ad campaigns and sign-ups.
The pandemic has accelerated Instacart's growth exponentially. Instacart is now second highest valued technology startup, valued at $34 billion (just behind SpaceX) and is anticipated to IPO in the near future. Read More
This is 3 month contract opportunity that could extend much longer. You will be building a brand new product with a React front-end and Ruby on Rails backend.
ABOUT THE JOB
- Be part of a distributed team, with a large amount of ownership and responsibility for managing things directly.
- Ship high-quality solutions with a sense of urgency and speed.
- Work closely with product managers, other teams, and both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.
- Have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives.
ABOUT YOU
Technical
- Experience with relational databases [Postgres / MySQL]
- Experience with HTML/CSS/JS
- Experience with React
- Experience with GraphQL APIs
Nice to haves:
- Experience with Ruby on Rails
- General knowledge of the modern JavaScript ecosystem, best practices
General:
- 5+ years relevant web development experience
- Excited by constantly learning new technologies &skillsets - thrives in a collaborative team environment
- Ownership over systems and team that you work on