Engineering Manager, Platform

About the Team

Door Dash is seeking an Engineering Manager with a strong platform-oriented mindset to lead the Money Platform team. Our mission is to build a world-class, reliable, and cost-efficient payment platform that offers exceptional flexibility and serves as a key driver of business growth.

At the core of our work is Payin — ensuring that customers can seamlessly complete billions of dollars in transactions each year, anytime and through their preferred payment methods. Beyond that, we’re developing a new global unified payments technology platform designed, enabling faster global product innovation and improving operational consistency across 40+ countries.

As the Engineering Manager for the Money Platform, you will lead a talented and passionate engineering team building the systems at the heart of Door Dash’s business. In this role you will:

• Redesign and modernize our global payment platform to handle the ever-growing demands of scale, reliability, and performance.
• Deliver resilient, scalable systems that support billions in transactions and enable innovative payment experiences across 40+ countries.
• Adopt an AI-native approach — leveraging AI to automate routine work, optimize processes, and tackle complex challenges with fresh, data-driven insights.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, and Strategy & Operations teams to define and execute a strategic roadmap that balances foundational investments with forward-looking innovation.
• Inspire, mentor, and grow your team by fostering technical excellence, customer obsession, and a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

This is a high-impact, cross-functional leadership role where your vision and execution will directly influence how millions of customers around the world pay, earn rewards, and engage with Door Dash every day.

• Lead and grow a team of exceptional backend and client-side engineers delivering end-to-end engineering solutions.
• Harnessing AI technologies to automate workflows and drive greater efficiency and innovation across payment operations.
• Be the technologist and system thinker who connects the dots between technology and the business and unlocks business opportunities through tech innovation.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, business leaders, and key stakeholders to determine the team's roadmap and vision, and manage execution against that roadmap.
• Provide architectural guidance and professional development for a team of 8+
• Encourage innovation, teamwork, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, and outside-of-the-box thinking.
• Oversee the hiring process for your team, in partnership with recruiting, to grow a diverse and inclusive team.
• Drive key business metrics such as customer engagement and retention.

• BS, MS, or PhD. in Computer Science or related field
• 1+ years of experience in people management leading full-stack teams (backend & web)
• 6+ years of industry experience
• Experience scaling high-volume platform
• Strong partnership with cross-functional peers
• Experience in Payments or Fintech a plus, but not required
• Experience with distributed system design, system scaling, and performance optimization
• Humility - willing to get into the details and open to feedback
• Growth mindset – you're eager to expand your skill set and excited to carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting
• Adaptability, resiliency, and the ability to thrive in ambiguity – things can change quickly, and you'll need to help the team evolve

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