[Hiring] Software Engineer @DoorDash USA

Role Description

Our mission is to improve the developer experience of engineers at DoorDash by building various internal products, including our internal developer portal, Developer Insights.

Our success as a platform team depends on the success of the product teams we serve. Because of this, we invest in building a strong community that encourages participation and promotes best practices.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will:

• Introduce cutting edge technologies to our engineering organization, including tools built on LLMs
• Build new features for Developer Insights (using Backstage.io)
• Improve the developer experience for all of our engineers
• Work and collaborate across team boundaries
• Contribute features and bug fixes to upstream open-source projects
• Mentor and educate your peers
• Lead the team in a technical fashion and assist in roadmap planning and measurement of existing features
• Represent the team at large in OKR and engineering all-hands presentations
• Context switch from frontend to backend to data depending on the need that arises

Qualifications

• You have at least 2 years of experience in web technologies using Typescript with React on the frontend with Java, Kotlin, Python or Go backend experience
• You have a product mindset and apply that to how you would build out platform services
• You love systems and software, and you're proficient in both
• You’re curious and dive deep into different system architectures
• You are an organized and excellent written and verbal communicator
• You have proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees
• 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
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• Disability and basic life insurance
• Family-forming assistance
• Mental health program

For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.

For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked, and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked.

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado: $130,600 — $192,000 USD.

Company Description

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers.

DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.