Staff Software Engineer, Backend

DoorDash; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in Toronto seeks an experienced Product Engineer to enhance backend services and architecture. Responsibilities include developing large-scale web applications and transitioning to microservice architecture. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in industry, strong backend technology experience, and a degree in Computer Science. The role offers excellent benefits and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Premium healthcare

Wellness expense reimbursement

Paid parental leave

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience.
• Prior experience working with backend tech stacks.
• Ability to analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources.

Responsibilities

• Develop, release and run large-scale web applications.
• Define backend architecture and tech stack.
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for backend systems.

Skills

Backend tech stacks

Service oriented architecture

REST APIs

Unit testing

SQL and NoSQL databases

Java/Kotlin

Education

B.S., M.S., or PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Postgres

Redis

Elasticsearch

RabbitMQ

Job description

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.

About the Role

Product 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
• 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 APIs, 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, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ)
• Nice to Have: Experience building large scale, real-time applications
• Experience with Java/Kotlin
• Contributor to open source projects

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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.

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 are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

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.

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

Our commitment to inclusion extends to accommodating candidates as required by law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the hiring process or an alternate selection process, please inform your recruiting contact.

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