DoorDash
Senior Software Engineer, Backend Frameworks
DoorDash, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Senior Software Engineer, Backend Frameworks
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About The Team Our mission is to enable DoorDash Backend engineers across our three engineering excellence pillars:
Quality, Velocity and Efficiency , through excellent language standards. There are multiple high impact opportunities in the team, with focus areas across application platforms, platform reliability, performance, scalability and efficiency.
About The Role As a Software Engineer on the Backend Frameworks team, you will be building frameworks and libraries as part of a central platform that powers backend applications across all engineering teams at DoorDash. You will work closely with engineers, technical product managers, and engineering managers across all parts of the engineering organization to deliver large and impactful initiatives. Additionally, you will be a culture carrier in your team through mentorship, education, and uplifting of your peers. You will report into Backend Frameworks in our Developer Platform organization.
You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will…
Develop and maintain foundational components to enable DoorDash Engineers to excel at backend engineering.
Play a foundational role in guiding the future of DoorDash’s software development strategy, by building, extending, and operating a central platform used by all DoorDash engineering teams.
Be at the forefront of developing new technologies and have the opportunity to leverage and contribute to open source tech.
Contribute to cross‑functional projects by designing large scale systems with engineering excellence, long‑term maintainability, and risk in mind.
Work with a team of highly talented and motivated teammates.
Join a growing company and grow right along with us.
We’re Excited About You Because…
You have 5+ years of experience in Java or Kotlin (bonus points for Golang and Python)
You are comfortable working on distributed systems and platform components, and have demonstrated effectiveness in building them at scale
You apply a product mindset to platform problems and feel accomplished enabling others.
Curious and dive deep into different system architectures.
You solve problems using software to automate and avoid creating toil for others.
Agile and excel in written and verbal communication.
Notice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only We use Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023, and resumed using Covey Scout for Inbound again on June 29, 2024. The Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor. Results of the audit may be viewed here: Covey.
Compensation Base salary and equity are determined based on job‑related factors. Pay ranges are market‑dependent and may be modified. Talk to your recruiter for more information.
DoorDash offers a comprehensive benefits package including 401(k) matching, paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits, paid time off, and more.
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); paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked.
Salary Ranges (US)
I4: $130,600—$192,000 USD
I5: $159,800—$235,000 USD
I6: $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 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.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. We hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
Statement of Non‑Discrimination In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash.
If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Software Development
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About The Team Our mission is to enable DoorDash Backend engineers across our three engineering excellence pillars:
Quality, Velocity and Efficiency , through excellent language standards. There are multiple high impact opportunities in the team, with focus areas across application platforms, platform reliability, performance, scalability and efficiency.
About The Role As a Software Engineer on the Backend Frameworks team, you will be building frameworks and libraries as part of a central platform that powers backend applications across all engineering teams at DoorDash. You will work closely with engineers, technical product managers, and engineering managers across all parts of the engineering organization to deliver large and impactful initiatives. Additionally, you will be a culture carrier in your team through mentorship, education, and uplifting of your peers. You will report into Backend Frameworks in our Developer Platform organization.
You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will…
Develop and maintain foundational components to enable DoorDash Engineers to excel at backend engineering.
Play a foundational role in guiding the future of DoorDash’s software development strategy, by building, extending, and operating a central platform used by all DoorDash engineering teams.
Be at the forefront of developing new technologies and have the opportunity to leverage and contribute to open source tech.
Contribute to cross‑functional projects by designing large scale systems with engineering excellence, long‑term maintainability, and risk in mind.
Work with a team of highly talented and motivated teammates.
Join a growing company and grow right along with us.
We’re Excited About You Because…
You have 5+ years of experience in Java or Kotlin (bonus points for Golang and Python)
You are comfortable working on distributed systems and platform components, and have demonstrated effectiveness in building them at scale
You apply a product mindset to platform problems and feel accomplished enabling others.
Curious and dive deep into different system architectures.
You solve problems using software to automate and avoid creating toil for others.
Agile and excel in written and verbal communication.
Notice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only We use Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023, and resumed using Covey Scout for Inbound again on June 29, 2024. The Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor. Results of the audit may be viewed here: Covey.
Compensation Base salary and equity are determined based on job‑related factors. Pay ranges are market‑dependent and may be modified. Talk to your recruiter for more information.
DoorDash offers a comprehensive benefits package including 401(k) matching, paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits, paid time off, and more.
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); paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked.
Salary Ranges (US)
I4: $130,600—$192,000 USD
I5: $159,800—$235,000 USD
I6: $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 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.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. We hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
Statement of Non‑Discrimination In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash.
If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Software Development
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