Instacart

Senior Data Engineer II, Finance

Instacart$188K — $198K *
US-Anywhere
+ 2 other locationsRemote
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in Data/Software Engineering with a focus on financial data pipelines.
  • Proficient in cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, Redshift, and BigQuery.
  • Experience with data infrastructure technologies including Python, Airflow, Spark, Iceberg, and Delta Lake.
  • Strong data modeling skills, particularly with complex financial datasets.
  • Expertise in SQL and dbt (Data Build Tool) for data transformation.
  • Proven history of building complex ETL/ELT pipelines for financial contexts.
  • Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with finance and accounting teams to identify and solve their data needs.
  • Mentor team members and advocate for engineering best practices.
  • Manage end-to-end initiatives, from design through implementation, with substantial autonomy.
  • Lead projects that shape the strategic direction of financial data management.
  • Ensure the integrity of data integration pipelines for timely and accurate financial reporting.

Benefits

  • Flexible remote work policy.
  • Eligibility for new hire equity grants and annual refresh grants.
  • Access to highly competitive compensation and benefits tailored to employee locations.
Full Job Description
Overview

Our backend systems power the clients used by millions of customers every year to buy their groceries online. These systems must also support tight integration with the largest retailers in the US and Canada. Engineering at Instacart provides the opportunity to work on challenging scaling problems while also designing the features that will define our industry. You will learn how to build in an open collaborative environment serving millions of requests daily.

Finance data engineering is part of the Data Infrastructure team, working closely with accounting, billing & revenue teams to support the monthly/quarterly book close, retailer invoicing and internal/external financial reporting. The team plays a critical role in defining how financial data is modeled and standardized for uniform, reliable, timely and accurate reporting. This is a high impact, high visibility role owning critical data integration pipelines and models across all of Instacart's products.

The team is still small and many of our bigger initiatives are at an early stage. We expect you to work closely with stakeholders and shape these systems from design, technical decisions, project management to execution. Your input will be critical for driving the Finance Data Strategy and building the platform that Instacart's financial data infrastructure will be built upon.

About the Job
  • You will work closely with finance, accounting, billing, and revenue teams to understand their main pain points and translate them into self-serve, reliable, and scalable data solutions.
  • You are expected to mentor other team members and be a champion of engineering excellence across the organization.
  • You will be part of a small team with a large amount of ownership and autonomy, managing initiatives directly from design through execution.
  • You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives that shape the financial data vision and roadmap.
  • You will own critical data integration pipelines and models, ensuring uniform, reliable, timely, and accurate financial reporting.


About You
Minimum Qualifications
  • 8+ years of working experience in a Data/Software Engineering role, with a focus on building data pipelines (specialized in financial data).
  • Strong knowledge of cloud based warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery.
  • Strong knowledge of common data infra technologies (Python, Airflow, Spark, Iceberg, Delta Lake) in a production environment.
  • Expert in data modeling with experience in modeling complex financial data with scalability and usability in mind.
  • Expert with SQL and dbt (Data Build Tool).
  • Experience building high quality and complex ETL/ELT pipelines including pipelines for accounting/billing purposes.
  • Experience with data immutability, auditability, slowly changing dimensions or similar concepts.
  • Adept at fluently communicating with many cross-functional stakeholders to drive requirements and design shared datasets.
  • An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions.
  • Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or equivalent work experience.
  • Experience with Snowflake, dbt (Data Build Tool) and Airflow.
  • Experience with SOX controlled data systems.


#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. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.

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

CAN

$188,000-$198,500 CAD

About Instacart

Instacart is an American company that operates a grocery delivery and pick-up service in the United States and Canada. The company offers its services via a website and mobile app. The service allows customers to order groceries from participating retailers with the shopping being done by a personal shopper. Instacart was founded in 2012 by entrepreneur Apoorva Mehta, a former Amazon.com employee. Apoorva was born in India and moved with his family to Canada in 2000. He studied engineering at the University of Waterloo and graduated in 2008. He was a participant in Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch, which eventually led to the creation of Instacart. In 2013, Mehta was included on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Apoorva previously worked at BlackBerry, Qualcomm, and then Amazon as a supply chain engineer, where he developed fulfillment systems to move packages from Amazon's warehouses to customers' homes. Before founding Instacart, Apoorva had tried to start at least 20 other services. He tried building an ad network for social gaming companies, and developing a social network specifically for lawyers, among other start-ups. Instacart originally launched in San Francisco. By April 2015, the firm had about 200 employees. It introduced a new policy around June allowing some shoppers to choose to be part-time employees, starting with Chicago and Boston and extending its offer to shoppers in Atlanta, Miami, and Washington D.C. the following month.
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