Engineering teams that support internal mobility on Key Values

Ten percent of our full-time employees started out as shoppers on the platform.

We want to support you no matter where you want to take your career. While most companies focus on career progression in terms of “climbing up the ladder,” we fully acknowledge that many people want to move laterally, too. Not only does this mean working on different teams or on different parts of the stack, but also learning entirely new disciplines altogether.

We have an internal coding bootcamp called Carrot University to help employees without technical backgrounds learn how to code and apply for open engineering positions. We realized people who are strongly motivated to make this transition will do so with or without our help, and these are precisely the types of people we value most at Instacart. Carrot U enables employees in non-technical roles to keep their jobs and simultaneously gain new skills. For example, Jeremy Flanagan was a student of Carrot U who started at Instacart as a shopper – he is now a full-time software engineer on our Shopper Success team.

For engineers looking to make a smaller transition within engineering, we of course support that, too. Muffy Barkocy is a great example of this: she joined as a front end engineer and transitioned into backend/infrastructure engineering during her tenure (blog forthcoming!). Most career paths aren’t linear, which is why we do our best to support you no matter where yours takes you.

Engineering teams that support internal mobility

Ten percent of our full-time employees started out as shoppers on the platform.

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