Tech & Innovation

A Q&A with Instacart’s first VP of Algorithms We just welcomed Haixun Wang to Instacart as our first-ever Vice President of Algorithms and Distinguished Scientist. In his new role, Haixun will lead the team that...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...