About the Team

The Consumer Platform engineering group consists of the Order Platform. This is a tier 0 platform that owns the lifecycle management of orders at DoorDash. The platform powers order workflows from end-to-end; consisting of pre-checkout, checkout and post-checkout systems. These systems comprise various services, such as event processing systems, data stores, and other technical systems. With a strong emphasis on reliability, scalability, and extensibility, the platform aims to enable each business line to effectively leverage it to build various products and features across DoorDash. The Order Checkout and Post Check-out teams own the core Checkout technical components (such as Order Service, Order Processing state machine/workflows, event processing workflows, corresponding Datastores etc.) and the post checkout components/services (such as adjustments, cancellations, merchant transmission and Order intelligence) of the platform respectively. These teams work closely with multiple product teams and downstream teams to make ordering at DoorDash a smooth experience. Further, they also enable other teams by powering their flows by either extending/scaling current offerings or building new platform features/offerings in partnership with them. The teams focus on maintaining a high bar around reliability, efficiency and platform offerings and to continuously evolve the platform so that product team interactions are smooth.

About the Role

As the manager responsible for the Order Checkout and Post Checkout teams, you will be driving the technical vision and execution of the teams and also lead the evolution of the platform to be world-class, reliable, highly available, and easily extensible.

What You’ll Achieve

• You will lead teams owning a mission-critical platform which is core to DoorDash and where reliability is paramount.
• Lead the evolution of the platform to become world class, enabling fast product development.
• Extend platform’s offering to power more complex functionalities for a wide variety of products/businesses
• Inspire your team with your technical vision and create alignment necessary to execute on it.
• Recruit and retain talented software engineers working across different disciplines.
• Rolling up your sleeves with hands on problem solving when necessary.
• Coaching, mentoring and providing career guidance to managers and senior ICs.

About You

• Committed - you’ll do whatever it takes to deliver.
• You’re an owner - you own the outcome regardless of the circumstances.
• Customer obsessed - you care about Doordash customers globally, from consumers to dashers and merchants.
• Adaptable, resilient, and able to thrive in ambiguity - things change quickly in our fast-paced company and you’ll need to be able to keep up!
• Humble - you’re willing to jump in and you’re open to feedback.
• Growth-minded - you enjoy driving projects to hit business goals and growing Doordash business globally.

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10+ years of industry experience.
• You have at least 3 years experience in an engineering management role.
• Prior experience in distributed systems & Event Processing systems.
• Experience building highly available, scalable and reliable platforms.
• Experience running teams owning tier 0 or mission critical services.

Familiarity with the Following Technologies

• Distributed systems & API design.
• Kotlin, gRPS, REST, Kubernetes & AWS.
• Event processing: Apache Kafka, Cadence & Apache Flink.
• Experienced with scaling systems using Cassandra, PostgreSQL & Redis.

About DoorDash

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.

DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

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