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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 weâre building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If youâre ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
Thereâs 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 workâwhether itâs from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shopâwhile staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
Instacartâs Design Systems & Foundations team builds the shared components, tokens, guardrails, and guidance that power customer, shopper, retailer, and internal tools at scale. Weâre looking for a Design Technologist who thrives at the intersection of design and engineeringâsomeone equally motivated to elevate design craft and to build the technical capabilities that make highâquality UI faster and easier to produce across a multiâproduct ecosystem.
This role sits within the Design organization and supports a multiâsided marketplace, where consistency, speed, and quality matter across multiple user types and product surfaces. Youâll partner closely with product designers, design systems designers, and frontâend engineers to strengthen our systems ecosystem, reduce drift, and embed guidance directly into the tools and workflows teams already use.
Youâll join a designâfirst, technically fluent team that pairs mature governance (versioning, deprecations, migrations) with strong engineering partnerships and pragmatic automation. If youâre energized by rolling up your sleeves, instrumenting impact, and using AIâassisted workflows to eliminate toilâwhile upholding high standards for quality, accessibility, and securityâthis role is for you.
About the Job
Own and improve core system infrastructure including repositories, publishing workflows, and component playgrounds/environments (e.g., Storybook or equivalent).
Evolve token workflows (semantic and primitive), theming strategies, and reliable distribution of tokens into product codebases.
Reduce system drift by strengthening designâtoâcode feedback loops, improving contribution workflows, and embedding guardrails where work happens.
Contribute to component implementations with an emphasis on maintainable patterns, scalable architecture, accessibility defaults, and crossâplatform consistency.
Build internal tools that enable faster, more consistent delivery: Figma plugins/scripts, generators/scaffolding for systemâaligned components, and PR/CI checks, lint rules, and automated quality gates.
Model system guidance in structured, reusable formats (rules, constraints, mappings, examples) to power checks, inâtool guidance, and automation.
Instrument and iterate: measure adoption and quality, identify recurring sources of rework, and evolve tooling and standards based on realâworld usage.
Use AIâassisted workflows to accelerate audits, migrations, and repetitive tasks (e.g., script generation, change summaries, automated fixes) with strong review, security, and quality practices.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
6+ years of experience across product design and/or frontâend engineering, including shipping and maintaining a design system adopted by multiple product teams.
Portfolio demonstrating design systems mastery (components, patterns, tokens, governance) and crossâplatform consistency; portfolio link required.
Advanced proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and a modern frontâend framework (React or similar).
Proven experience delivering internal tools (e.g., Figma plugins, scripts, CLIs, CI automations) with testing, maintainability, and observability where appropriate.
Fluency in Figma at a systems level: component architecture, variants/props strategy, naming conventions, library structure, and publishing/versioning.
Strong understanding of design tokens (semantic vs. primitive), theming/density, and mapping token decisions to UI intent.
Demonstrated ability to reason about component UXâincluding anatomy, states, edge cases, responsive behavior, motionâand to establish accessibility defaults.
Handsâon experience working in shared component codebases/monorepos with multiâteam contribution models.
Demonstrated use of AIâassisted development or design workflows to reduce toil and accelerate delivery with appropriate judgment, review, and security considerations.
Experience driving system adoption through metrics, deprecation/migration programs, and crossâfunctional enablement.
Bachelorâs degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience developing and shipping Figma plugins.
Experience with AIâassisted coding environments (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) and promptâdriven automation.
Familiarity with token pipelines and tooling (e.g., CSS variables, semantic token architectures, Style Dictionary or equivalent).
Experience with Storybook (or equivalent) and docs/playground infrastructure.
Experience with visual regression testing and UI QA automation.
Deep accessibility expertise applied through scalable guardrails, linters, and automation.
Experience with native UI frameworks (SwiftUI and/or Jetpack Compose) and crossâplatform design enablement.
Fluency across endâtoâend product design processesâfrom discovery and ideation through prototyping and validation.
#LI-Remote
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. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
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 Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
CAN
$168,000—$177,500 USD