Backend Engineer for IoT & Autonomous Delivery

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

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan with employer matching

Parental leave 16 weeks

Wellness benefits

Commuter benefits match

Paid time off and paid sick leave

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Job summary

DoorDash Labs is seeking a backend engineer to build and operate scalable services at the intersection of software and robotics. You will own backend systems that support product functionality, integrate with core data, and enable reliable, secure deployments.

The role emphasizes design, performance, and collaboration across teams to maximize business impact. The team focuses on IoT and autonomous delivery backend services, with opportunities to influence architecture, data pipelines, and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of industry experience as a software engineer.
• Experience with backend for frontend architecture.
• 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

Backend for frontend

REST APIs

SQL

Java/Kotlin

SOA

Unit testing

Architectural design

Education

B.S., M.S., or PhD in CS or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

Redis

PostgreSQL

Cassandra

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

DoorDash Labs is seeking a backend engineer to build and operate scalable services at the intersection of software and robotics. You will own backend systems that support product functionality, integrate with core data, and enable reliable, secure deployments.

The role emphasizes design, performance, and collaboration across teams to maximize business impact. The team focuses on IoT and autonomous delivery backend services, with opportunities to influence architecture, data pipelines, and