Instacart
Senior
Senior Android engineer shipping shopper lifecycle features that move Instacart's marketplace health
Interview for Instacart's Shopper Activation and Engagement team, owning Kotlin features across the shopper app's activation, onboarding, earnings, ratings, and retention experiences. Expect deep Android architecture questions (Kotlin, RxJava, Dagger, Jetpack Compose) paired with experimentation and marketplace-metrics thinking, given the 5+ years Android and 2+ years consumer-scale bar.
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What this interview tests
- Kotlin, RxJava, Dagger, Jetpack Compose architecture
- End-to-end feature ownership with experimentation (A/B testing)
- Marketplace/growth metrics thinking
- App architecture evolution & modularization
- Operational excellence: performance, monitoring, observability
- Mentorship and raising engineering standards
Common question themes
A shopper/consumer-facing feature you owned from design through A/B test to launch
RxJava/Dagger architecture decisions and a Jetpack Compose migration you drove
Defining success metrics and instrumentation jointly with Product and Data Science
Improving app stability, performance, or observability at scale
Concurrency and CS fundamentals as applied to a real Android bug
Mentoring engineers or raising code quality/testing standards on a team
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