Staff Android Engineer, Pick & Deliver

Remote · 7+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Sep 29, 2026

At a glance

Instacart is seeking an Android Engineer to serve as a technical lead within the Pick & Deliver organization.
You will help shape and deliver high-visibility mobile experiences that support retailers throughout the process of picking customer orders.
This role offers the opportunity to work on complex, high-impact challenges across multiple retailer priorities, new picking models, market expansion, and platform-scale investments.

Lead the technical direction and execution of Android experiences that support retailers and shoppers across all phases of picking an order.
Design, build, test, and maintain high-quality Android applications using modern technologies including Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and RxJava.
Partner with Product, Design, Backend Engineering, iOS Engineering, retailers, and external vendors to define solutions for complex operational and customer needs.
Own projects from technical discovery through delivery, balancing immediate retailer priorities with long-term platform health, scalability, and maintainability.
Improve application performance, reliability, observability, and developer experience through profiling, instrumentation, architectural improvements, and thoughtful technical debt reduction.
Provide technical leadership across the Pick & Deliver organization by facilitating design discussions, mentoring engineers, establishing engineering best practices, and helping teams make clear, durable decisions.
Contribute to a roadmap that includes new picking models, expansion to additional retailers and markets, and investments in the Android platform and operational scale.

At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience developing and shipping Android applications.
Strong proficiency in Kotlin and demonstrated experience with modern Android development practices, including Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and reactive programming with RxJava or an equivalent framework.
Experience leading the technical execution of complex, cross-functional software projects from design through production launch.
Experience designing maintainable Android architectures and improving application performance, reliability, testing, monitoring, or observability.
Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Product, Design, Backend Engineering, iOS Engineering, and external stakeholders to deliver customer-facing products.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions, align stakeholders, and communicate risks and tradeoffs clearly.

Experience building mobile products for retail, logistics, fulfillment, delivery, workforce, or other operational environments.
Experience supporting multiple product teams, retailers, markets, or high-priority initiatives at the same time.
Experience with Android performance profiling, application startup optimization, crash reduction, instrumentation, or large-scale observability.
Experience contributing to mobile platform strategy, shared components, developer tooling, or migration to modern Android technologies.
Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams without direct authority.
Experience working with external partners, vendors, or enterprise customers to understand operational needs and deliver reliable solutions.

Flex First team providing flexibility to choose where to work from home, an office, or a coffee shop