Instawork - Senior Software Engineer

• Product Delivery – Collaborate with PMs and designers to translate customer needs into technical solutions and shape product requirements. • Product Delivery • Write Quality Code – Ship code that follows engineering best practices (DRY, maintainable) and is production-safe after code review. • Write Quality Code • Collaborate Cross-Functionally – Work closely with Product, Design, and Data partners to ensure project alignment from concept through deployment. • Collaborate Cross-Functionally • Drive Personal Growth – Proactively seek opportunities to sharpen skills through code reviews and architectural deep-dives with senior engineers. • Drive Personal Growth • Own Features End-to-End – Drive feature development from coding through deployment, monitoring, QA, and iteration based on user feedback. • Own Features End-to-End • Advocate for Best Practices – Champion engineering excellence and contribute to continuous improvement in developer tooling and experience. • Advocate for Best Practices • Contribute Technical Input – Provide input on team technical design, balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalable solutions. • Contribute Technical Input • Practice Clear Communication – Communicate effectively through clear PR descriptions and proactively surfacing blockers before they become critical problems. • Practice Clear Communication • For CA-based Applicants: • The base salary for this position is $190,000-$250,000. • This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options • This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including: • A variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire • Flexible paid time off • At least 8 paid company holidays annually • Commuter stipend • Supplemental pay on qualified leaves • Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution • Flexible spending plans • Perkspot - discount program through Lumity • A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location.  Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above. • Our Values • Empathy, Trust & CandorWe put ourselves in the shoes of our colleagues and customers and don’t shy away from uncomfortable conversations, instead building trust through honest and direct feedback. • Empathy, Trust & Candor • Bias for ActionWe practice high-velocity decision-making, clear-eyed that we often operate with incomplete information. Growing quickly means it’s OK to be wrong, so long as we learn from our mistakes and course correct! • Bias for Action • Always Be LearningWe’re a curious bunch, and with AI transforming our workplace we encourage everyone to learn from each other, compounding our knowledge and experience to help us change an entire industry. • Always Be Learning • Act Like an OwnerWe work long, hard, and smart, building products that delight our users and drive growth. Your ability to impact Instawork is limited only by your courage and conviction, not your job description. • Act Like an Owner • Founded in 2015, Instawork is the nation’s leading online labor marketplace for food services, hospitality, light industry, and logistics, connecting more than 7M skilled workers with local restaurants, hotels, warehouses, stadiums, and more. Our AI-powered platform serves thousands of businesses across more than 50 major markets in the United States and Canada. We're not just helping fill shifts, we're supporting local economies—and we're just getting started! • Instawork has been featured by CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Forbes included us on their Next Billion Dollar Startups list; RetailTech Breakthrough named us Workforce Hiring Solution of the Year for 2025; and Inc. 5000 recognized us as one of the country's top 10% fastest-growing companies two years in a row. But what matters most is our impact. We're solving real problems for real people, and we’re doing it at scale. • Personnel Privacy Policy