Tech & Innovation
Key Contributors: Moein Hasani, Hamidreza Shahidi, Trace Levinson, Guanghua Shu Introduction At Instacart, we are laser-focused on improving the user experience by making shopping feel easy, engaging, and personalized. Our discovery surfaces play a central role in bringing this to life. Alongside explicit Search intents, discovery is our opportunity to meet customers’ implicit needs, presenting them with the most relevant and inspiring content we have...
Feb 26, 2026
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Tech & Innovation
We’re excited to announce that seasoned design leader Jason James has joined Instacart as our VP of Design. Jason comes to us from Thumbtack, where he grew the design team six-fold. In his new role,...
Aug 18, 2021
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Tech & Innovation
In today’s world of data breaches and privacy concerns, every measure you can take to protect your data is another brick in the wall defending you. At Instacart , no matter how confident we feel...
Aug 18, 2021
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Tech & Innovation
I’m very excited to announce the release of Coil 1.0 . Coil is a Kotlin-first image loading library for Android built on top of Kotlin Coroutines. It simplifies loading images from the Internet (or any...
Aug 18, 2021
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Tech & Innovation
A Q&A with Dusty Pearce, our first VP of Infrastructure How did you get into Infrastructure Engineering? I started out as a software developer and grew into infrastructure over time. My last few companies have...
Aug 18, 2021
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Tech & Innovation
What do you do? I’m a user researcher at Instacart and I work on the shopper and customer experience for Pickup. I love talking to our users on both sides because it gives me the...
Aug 18, 2021
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Tech & Innovation
Today we launched Instacart Meals — a new grocery meals product that powers easy ordering, delivery and pickup of made-to-order food. Right now, Instacart Meals is live as a pilot at select Publix stores in...
Aug 18, 2021
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What happens when you fold a customer into your last mile? By: Kevin Henrikson I’m driving with my family from San Mateo to Juniper Lake for a camping trip. I need to stock up my...
Aug 18, 2021
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Tech & Innovation
Designing a new product and shopping experience from the ground up. Contributors: Senior Product Designers Andressa Bougleux and Dan Shilov Why pickup makes sense Imagine: It’s late in the afternoon when Carol realizes she forgot...
Aug 18, 2021
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Tech & Innovation
A Q&A with Leho Nigul, our first VP of Engineering, Catalog, and Tools Instacart has the largest grocery catalog in the world , with nearly 5 million unique products, spanning over 25,000 locations across North...
Aug 18, 2021
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