About the Team

DoorDash is seeking a seasoned full-stack Engineering Manager with a strong product sense to lead the Social team in the San Francisco Bay Area. This team is at the forefront of the transition to make the DoorDash app experience less transactional and more inspirational and engaging. The team’s scope spans both client applications and backend development and will require close coordination with the machine learning and platform teams. The goal of this team is to make DoorDash the ultimate destination to learn and discover what’s near them that they should try next

About the Role

You'll be at the crossroads of product and platform teams, tackling pivotal business challenges with refined technical innovations. Your focus will be on crafting a top-tier shopping journey spanning various interfaces like the homepage, search, store, and item screens within the DoorDash app. Moreover, you'll spearhead the team's technical roadmap and implementation, ensuring the development of robust, highly accessible, and easily adaptable engineering systems. Your role will entail a holistic perspective, involving cross-functional collaboration and astute evaluation of trade-offs to optimize the company's business impact.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• You will work at the intersection of product, technology, and business to lead a full-stack team
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to define the roadmap and vision for the team and deliver an immense impact
• Lead an outstanding team by coaching engineers, empowering engineers through delegation, and applying your technical expertise to hold your team to the highest engineering standards
• Inspire the team with your technical vision and create the alignment necessary to execute on it
• Scale the team by recruiting, retaining, and developing highly talented engineers across different disciplines

We’re excited about you because…

• You have a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent
• You have 7+ years of industry experience, including minimum of 2 years of management experience
• You have experience managing engineering disciplines across BE + Android + iOS + Web
• You bring a strong product sense and can be a thought partner with cross-functional peers
• You have hands-on experience working with non-technical stakeholders, cross-team collaboration, and building scalable products in a fast-paced environment
• You have the ability to handle ambiguity and work with product and business partners to collect non-technical requirements to design and build scalable experience solutions.
• You have the ability to guide and grow an excellent engineering team in a rapidly changing business environment

Why You’ll Love Working at DoorDash

• We are leaders - Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something everyone at DoorDash embraces and embodies.
• We are doers - We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do -- on every project, every day. 
• We are learning - We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job, whether we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute.
• We are all DoorDash - The magic of DoorDash is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights. 
• You grow here faster than other places because we move and grow fast. You practice muscles like leading through chaos, ruthless prioritization, and crisis management.

 

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Compensation

The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and marke