Senior Software Engineer, Backend Frameworks

Our mission is to enable Door Dash Backend engineers across our three engineering excellence pillars:
Quality, Velocity and Efficiency, through excellent language standards.

There are multiple high impact opportunities in the team, with focus areas across application platforms, platform reliability, performance, scalability and efficiency.

As a Software Engineer on the Backend Frameworks team, you will be building frameworks and libraries as part of a central platform that powers backend applications across all engineering teams at Door Dash.

You will work closely with engineers, technical product managers, and engineering managers across all parts of the engineering organization to deliver large and impactful initiatives. Additionally, you will be a culture carrier in your team through mentorship, education, and uplifting of your peers.

You will report into Backend Frameworks in our Developer Platform organization

• Develop and maintain foundational components to enable Door Dash Engineers to excel at backend engineering.
• Play a foundational role in guiding the future of Door Dash’s software development strategy, by building, extending, and operating a central platform used by all Door Dash engineering teams.
• Be at the forefront of developing new technologies and have the opportunity to leverage and contribute to open source tech.
• Contribute to cross-functional projects by designing large scale systems with engineering excellence, long-term maintainability, and risk in mind.
• Work with a team of highly talented and motivated teammates.
• Join a growing company and grow right along with us.

• You have 5+ years of experience in Java or Kotlin (bonus points for Golang and Python)
• You are comfortable working on distributed systems and platform components, and have demonstrated effectiveness in building them at scale
• You apply a product mindset to platform problems and feel accomplished enabling others.
• You’re curious and dive deep into different system architectures.
• You solve problems using software to automate and avoid creating toil for others.
• You are an organized and excellent written and verbal communicator.

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Compensation

The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

Door Dash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). Door Dash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here .

See below for paid time off details:

• For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick…