Engineering Manager, Backend Frameworks at DoorDash

DoorDash is revolutionizing food delivery and local commerce. Join our mission to grow and connect communities!

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain foundational components to enable DoorDash Engineers to excel at backend engineering. Champion data-informed decision-making and continuous improvement across the team
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to drive long-term architectural direction and influence company-wide strategy
• Guide the team through ambiguity, leveraging industry best practices while also knowing when to break the mold
• Communicate with clarity, whether explaining a trade-off to execs or mapping technical strategy across teams
• Drive alignment across teams and disciplines, leading high-impact cross-functional initiatives
• Build, sustain, and grow a diverse team to address the growing needs of the organization

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software development, and expert proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Go or Python
• 3+ years designing and operating distributed systems and platform components at scale
• 2+ years leading engineering teams
• A strong bias for action, pragmatic problem-solving, and deep technical expertise
• Proven success leading cross-functional initiatives with measurable impact
• Intellectual curiosity to dive deep into the lowest level of detail and know when it is necessary to do so
• A deep understanding of how to build quality software and know how to balance this with delivering value to your customers.
• Must be comfortable regularly exercising discretion and independent judgment in performing job duties, including evaluating options, making informed decisions, and determining appropriate courses of action within the scope of assigned responsibilities.

Key Skills

• hands-on software development
• expert proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Go or Python
• designing and operating distributed systems and platform components at scale
• leading engineering teams
• bias for action
• pragmatic problem-solving
• deep technical expertise
• leading cross-functional initiatives
• intellectual curiosity
• building quality software

DoorDash Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• wellness benefits
• commuter benefits match
• paid time off
• paid sick leave
• medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• disability and basic life insurance
• family-forming assistance

Salary Range

$1,93,800 - $2,85,000 USD annually

Job Summary

About the Team

Our mission is to enable DoorDash Backend engineers across our three engineering excellence pillars: Quality, Velocity and Efficiency. We provide the framework-level solutions which enable engineers to build, ship, and operate services at scale and with confidence.

About the Role

We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Backend Frameworks team. In this role, you’ll set the technical vision and drive execution for building backend applications frameworks for all DoorDash engineering teams. You’ll partner with senior engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to design and operate systems that support our platform's reliability, velocity and efficiency.

Your team will focus on defining, building frameworks and technical standards ...

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