Senior Engineering Manager, Activation & Engagement

Instacart

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Work type
Remote
Location
Ontario, CanadaAlberta, CanadaBritish Columbia, CanadaNova Scotia, Canada
Salary
$229,000–$241,500 / yr
Posted
46 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Competitive pay

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $222k
This role $235k
$164k most similar roles pay here $281k

This role pays more than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $174,937–$270,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $235k versus about $222k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Instacart

Instacart (Maplebear Inc.) is a North American grocery technology company that operates an online marketplace and delivery service connecting customers with personal shoppers who pick and deliver orders from local retailers. It also sells retail e-commerce software and advertising services to grocers and brands.

Instacart currently has 49 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $196,000–$207,000 across 49 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineering Manager, Activation & Engagement

As a Senior Engineering Manager, Activation & Engagement, you will lead a team of 10–12 engineers focused on the shopper lifecycle, including onboarding, activation, and engagement. You will be responsible for the team's operating model, roadmap execution, technical direction, and talent development across mobile, backend, vendor-integrated systems, and engineering foundations. The role involves managing complex requirements such as compliance deadlines, marketplace efficiency, and operational reliability within a multi-sided marketplace. You will partner with cross-functional teams like Product, Design, Data, and Legal to navigate competing priorities. Key technical areas include distributed systems, service ownership, and the integration of AI-assisted engineering workflows. The ideal candidate possesses experience in Ruby on Rails, Python, Golang, Postgres, Redis, and AWS while managing high-impact product surfaces that ensure marketplace stability and shopper success through scalable infrastructure and reliable system design.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Remote?

Median $235250 from 43 postings across 20 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead a team of 10–12 engineers across mobile, backend, and vendor-integrated systems to drive shopper activation and engagement.
  • Define the technical direction for reliability, observability, on-call hygiene, and incident response.
  • Develop and manage engineering talent through hiring, performance management, and career growth planning.
  • Execute multi-quarter roadmaps by balancing competing priorities like compliance deadlines, product growth, and infrastructure improvements.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, Legal, and Operations to negotiate trade-offs and align on high-impact work.
  • Integrate modern AI developer tools and assisted workflows to improve engineering velocity and code quality.
  • Manage complex technical environments involving legacy systems, multi-sided marketplace dynamics, and large-scale distributed systems.

What we're looking for

  • At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • At least 5 years of experience managing engineers through hiring, performance management, and career development.
  • Experience leading product engineering teams across mobile applications, backend services, and operationally sensitive systems.
  • Strong technical judgment in distributed systems, reliability, observability, on-call hygiene, and incident response.
  • Proven ability to deliver multi-quarter roadmaps while managing competing priorities like compliance, growth, and infrastructure.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional planning with Product, Design, Legal, Operations, and Data teams.
  • Experience managing complex ownership areas involving legacy systems, ambiguous requirements, and shifting business priorities.
  • Experience using modern AI developer tools or AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve team velocity and quality.

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