About the Team

DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We're hiring a backend software engineer to work at the intersection of software engineering and robotics to solve key business problems with elegant technical solutions. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions to a service loved by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! 

You're excited about this opportunity because you will...

• Design and implement backend services for IoT that integrates with core DoorDash data, focused on reliability, and future extensibility
• Create a well documented APIs for other departments to integrate with
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for our backend systems
• Introduce tools and best practices to accelerate our development process
• Design and implement backend services for autonomous delivery system that integrate with core DoorDash data.

We're excited about you because you have...

• B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent
• 6+ years of industry experience as a software engineer
• Experience with backend for frontend architecture
• Ability to improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of multiple system resources
• Experience with service oriented architecture, writing REST API’s, unit testing, and architectural design
• Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (HTTP, REST)
• Experience with SQL
• Experience with either Java or Kotlin

Nice to Have

Experience with these technologies is not required but helpful.

• Familiarity with Kotlin
• gRPC, Kafka, Redis, Postgres, or Cassandra
• AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
• Familiarity with geospatial data and mapping technologies (GIS)

 

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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 market conditions.  Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.

See below for paid time off details:

• For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
• For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).

The national base pay ranges for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

I4$130,600—$192,000 USDI5$159,800—$235,000 USDI6$193,800—$285,000 USD

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 ca