Backend Engineer for IoT & Autonomous Delivery

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

401(k) plan with employer matching

Paid parental leave

Wellness benefits

Commuter benefits match

Paid time off

Job summary

DoorDash Labs is seeking a backend software engineer to join a robotics-focused team. You will build and operate backend services for IoT and autonomous delivery systems, creating robust APIs and scalable systems.

The role emphasizes reliability, security, and cross-team collaboration to maximize business impact. You will work on REST-based services, contribute to architecture decisions, and help improve throughput while mentoring on best practices and code quality.

Qualifications

• B.S., M.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 API’s, 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 system that integrate with core DoorDash data.

Skills

REST APIs

SQL

Java or Kotlin

Backend for frontend

HTTP/REST

Unit testing

SOA design

Education

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

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

gRPC

Kafka

Redis

Postgres

Cassandra

Job description

DoorDash Labs is seeking a backend software engineer to join a robotics-focused team. You will build and operate backend services for IoT and autonomous delivery systems, creating robust APIs and scalable systems.

The role emphasizes reliability, security, and cross-team collaboration to maximize business impact. You will work on REST-based services, contribute to architecture decisions, and help improve throughput while mentoring on best practices and code quality.