Backend Engineer for IoT & Autonomous Delivery

DoorDash, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 194,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with employer matching

Paid parental leave (16 weeks)

Wellness benefits

Commuter benefits match

Paid time off

Paid sick leave

Medical/dental/vision benefits

11 paid holidays

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Family-forming assistance

Mental health program

Job summary

DoorDash Labs is seeking a Backend Engineer to work at the intersection of software engineering and robotics, developing backend services for IoT and autonomous delivery systems. You will design scalable APIs, ensure reliability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to maximize business impact.

The role emphasizes product and platform work with modern web stacks, service-oriented architecture, and strong REST-based interfaces.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 6+ years of industry experience as a software engineer.
• Experience with backend for frontend architecture.
• Ability to improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of multiple 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
• Experience with either Java or Kotlin

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services for IoT that integrates with core DoorDash data, focused on reliability and future extensibility.
• Create well documented APIs for other departments to integrate with.
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for our backend systems.
• Introduce tools and best practices to accelerate our development process.
• Design and implement backend services for autonomous delivery systems that integrate with core DoorDash data.

Skills

Backend for frontend architecture

REST APIs

SQL

Java

Kotlin

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Postgres

Kafka

Job description

DoorDash Labs is seeking a Backend Engineer to work at the intersection of software engineering and robotics, developing backend services for IoT and autonomous delivery systems. You will design scalable APIs, ensure reliability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to maximize business impact.

The role emphasizes product and platform work with modern web stacks, service-oriented architecture, and strong REST-based interfaces.