Senior Backend Engineer, Autonomous Delivery Platforms

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

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking a Backend Software Engineer for the Autonomous Delivery Platform in the DoorDash Labs team. You will design and operate backend services that enable IoT and autonomous delivery, ensuring reliability and future extensibility.

The role emphasizes API design, performance and security improvements, and collaboration across teams to maximize business impact. Strong experience with REST, SQL, and Java or Kotlin is required.

Qualifications

• 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 a 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

Senior backend experience

Backend for frontend

SOA

REST APIs

Unit testing

Architectural design

HTTP/REST

SQL

Java/Kotlin

Education

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

Job description

DoorDash is seeking a Backend Software Engineer for the Autonomous Delivery Platform in the DoorDash Labs team. You will design and operate backend services that enable IoT and autonomous delivery, ensuring reliability and future extensibility.

The role emphasizes API design, performance and security improvements, and collaboration across teams to maximize business impact. Strong experience with REST, SQL, and Java or Kotlin is required.