Backend Engineer II — Real-Time Marketplace

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

DoorDash in London is seeking a Software Engineer to join our hybrid team. You will help build and maintain high-performance systems powering our hyper-local marketplace for millions of users.

The role is based in our London office with a typical hybrid arrangement (3 days in the office). Your day-to-day includes designing and scaling backend services and collaborating with multiple teams to deliver reliable, scalable software.

Qualifications

• Experience writing web-based applications in modern languages (Go, Ruby/Rails, Python, Scala, or Rust).
• Strong understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL).
• Familiarity with distributed systems, web-scale architectures and high-traffic environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale backend services for our real-time marketplace with Go, Ruby, or Python.
• Improve code structure via deep technical discussions and code reviews.
• Enhance system reliability through observability, monitoring, and health of production systems.
• Collaborate across teams to identify integration opportunities and influence the technical roadmap.
• Take an active role in interviewing and helping grow peers.

Skills

Go

Ruby

Python

PostgreSQL

Redis

DynamoDB

Elasticsearch

Job description

DoorDash in London is seeking a Software Engineer to join our hybrid team. You will help build and maintain high-performance systems powering our hyper-local marketplace for millions of users.

The role is based in our London office with a typical hybrid arrangement (3 days in the office). Your day-to-day includes designing and scaling backend services and collaborating with multiple teams to deliver reliable, scalable software.