Type
FULL TIME
Work Style
Remote
Level
SENIOR
We're transforming the grocery industry
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Instacart’s Design Systems & Foundations team builds the shared components, tokens, guardrails, and guidance that power customer, shopper, retailer, and internal tools at scale. We’re looking for a Design Technologist who thrives at the intersection of design and engineering—someone equally motivated to elevate design craft and to build the technical capabilities that make high‑quality UI faster and easier to produce across a multi‑product ecosystem.
This role sits within the Design organization and supports a multi‑sided marketplace, where consistency, speed, and quality matter across multiple user types and product surfaces. You’ll partner closely with product designers, design systems designers, and front‑end engineers to strengthen our systems ecosystem, reduce drift, and embed guidance directly into the tools and workflows teams already use.
You’ll join a design‑first, technically fluent team that pairs mature governance (versioning, deprecations, migrations) with strong engineering partnerships and pragmatic automation. If you’re energized by rolling up your sleeves, instrumenting impact, and using AI‑assisted workflows to eliminate toil—while upholding high standards for quality, accessibility, and security—this role is for you.
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.
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 US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
Prepare for your Senior Design Technologist - Design Systems interview at Instacart.