Instacart is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Activation & Engagement to lead a team of 10–12 engineers across mobile, backend, vendor-integrated systems, and engineering foundations. This leader will shape the team's strategy, execution model, technical direction, and talent development while partnering closely with Product, Design, Data, Operations, Legal/Compliance, and other cross-functional teams. The role owns Shopper Activation & Engagement end-to-end, including onboarding, activation, finding work, evaluating and accepting batches, staying compliant, understanding earnings-related experiences, and remaining engaged on the platform, with impact on shopper experience, supply quality, marketplace efficiency, operational reliability, and compliance. Responsibilities include multi-quarter roadmap planning across competing priorities—compliance deadlines, marketplace and product growth initiatives, vendor work, engineering foundations, and KTLO—while managing hard regulatory, vendor, and marketplace deadlines. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Design, Data, Legal/Compliance, Operations, Marketing, Logistics, Matching/Dispatch, Payments/Transactions, Trust & Safety, and Customer Experience) to align on high-impact work and negotiate trade-offs with rigor. Develop and retain engineering talent across a 10–12 person team, supporting senior engineers through career growth, performance management, talent planning, and organizational change. Set the technical direction for reliability, observability, on-call hygiene, incident response, and post-incid

Instacart is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Activation & Engagement to lead a team of 10–12 engineers across mobile, backend, vendor-integrated systems, and engineering foundations. This leader will shape the team's strategy, execution model, technical direction, and talent development while partnering closely with Product, Design, Data, Operations, Legal/Compliance, and other cross-functional teams. The role owns Shopper Activation & Engagement end-to-end, including onboarding, activation, finding work, evaluating and accepting batches, staying compliant, understanding earnings-related experiences, and remaining engaged on the platform, with impact on shopper experience, supply quality, marketplace efficiency, operational reliability, and compliance. Responsibilities include multi-quarter roadmap planning across competing priorities—compliance deadlines, marketplace and product growth initiatives, vendor work, engineering foundations, and KTLO—while managing hard regulatory, vendor, and marketplace deadlines. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Design, Data, Legal/Compliance, Operations, Marketing, Logistics, Matching/Dispatch, Payments/Transactions, Trust & Safety, and Customer Experience) to align on high-impact work and negotiate trade-offs with rigor. Develop and retain engineering talent across a 10–12 person team, supporting senior engineers through career growth, performance management, talent planning, and organizational change. Set the technical direction for reliability, observability, on-call hygiene, incident response, and post-incid