Staff Software Engineer - Vaga para Mulheres

DoorDash; São Paulo; On-site; BRL 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

DoorDash Brazil, expanding its São Paulo engineering hub, seeks senior backend engineers to own scalable systems and contribute to transitioning to microservices. You will design back-end architectures, optimize performance, and tackle complex technical challenges while collaborating across product and infrastructure teams.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in backend, strong system design skills, experience with REST APIs and modern data stores, and familiarity with AI coding tools to accelerate

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 8+ years of industry experience.
• Experience with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) across the full software development lifecycle.
• Prior experience working with backend tech stacks.
• Understanding of service oriented architecture and REST APIs.

Responsibilities

• Develop, release and run large-scale web applications.
• Define the backend architecture and tech stack for a product area.
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for backend systems.
• Transition monolithic codebase to a microservice-based architecture.
• Tackle bleeding-edge, technical problems in logistics.

Skills

Backend development

System design

Performance optimization

Scalability

REST APIs

Monolith-to-microservices transition

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Postgres

Redis

Kafka

Spark

S3

HTTP/REST

Job description

This role is part of our commitment to increase the representation of women in technology at DoorDash Brazil. We strongly encourage candidates who identify as women to apply. We are building an engineering team where women have equitable access to opportunity, leadership, and long-term career growth within our São Paulo hub. At DoorDash, we believe diverse teams build better products. This opportunity is designed to create greater equity in access to engineering roles and long-term career growth within our São Paulo engineering hub.

About the Team

DoorDash is building the world's most reliable on-demand, logistics engine for delivery! We're looking for experienced engineers to join our fast-growing engineering team to help us develop a 24x7, global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash's three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers. And now, with our new São Paulo office, we offer an unique opportunity for fast tracking your career by experiencing an early venture and help DoorDash grow from a small team to one of the largest engineering hubs in the world.

About the Role

Our software engineers work at the intersection of product and infrastructure to solve key business problems with elegant technical solutions. You'll operate our backend services and architecture that support all product functionality and will be challenged to consider the big picture -- collaborating cross-functionally, as well as evaluating and executing on trade-offs to maximize business impact for the company.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Develop, release and run large-scale web applications
• Develop and define the backend architecture and tech stack for a product area
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for our backend systems
• Be involved in transitioning our monolithic codebase to a microservice-based architecture
• Completely disrupt logistics by tackling bleeding-edge, technical problems

We're excited about you because you have…

• B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8+ years of industry experience
• Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software
• Prior experience working with backend tech stacks
• Ability to analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various 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 and NoSQL databases and other technologies (e.g. Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Spark, S3)

Nice To Haves

• Experience building large scale, real-time applications
• Experience with Java/Kotlin
• Contributor to open source projects

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 by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order 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.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That's why 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.

This position is open to candidates with disabilities. DoorDash welcomes applicants registered with the national autism registry (SisTEA) and others who seek an inclusive workplace.

If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.