Software Engineer, Backend - Autonomous Delivery Platform
About The Position
DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash, focused on applying robotics solutions to solve key business problems. We are seeking Backend Engineers to join either Product or Product Platform teams within DoorDash Labs. Product-focused Engineers will work at the intersection of product and infrastructure, designing and implementing backend services for IoT that integrate with core DoorDash data, focusing on reliability and future extensibility. They will create well-documented APIs, improve system performance, reliability, scalability, and security, and introduce tools and best practices to accelerate development. The role involves designing and implementing backend services for autonomous delivery systems that integrate with core DoorDash data.
Requirements
- B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent
- 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 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
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with Kotlin
- gRPC, Kafka, Redis, Postgres, or Cassandra
- AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
- Familiarity with geospatial data and mapping technologies (GIS)
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.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits match
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability insurance
- Basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance
- Mental health program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
