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Backend Engineer

DoorDash · 901 Market Floor 6, SF, CA 94105 · On-site

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About DoorDash

Restaurant delivery. Backed by Khosla, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia.

About the role

DoorDash is hiring a Backend Engineer in 901 Market Floor 6, SF, CA 94105. The full description is on DoorDash's site.

What they're looking for

  • High-energy and confident - you’ll do whatever it takes to win
  • You’re an owner - driven, focused, and quick to take ownership of your work
  • Humble - you’re willing to get into the details and you’re open to feedback
  • Adaptable, resilient, and able to thrive in ambiguity - things change quickly in our fast-paced startup and you’ll need to be able to keep up!
  • Growth-minded - you’re eager to expand your skill set and excited to carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting
  • Desire for impact - ready to take on a lot of responsibility and work collaboratively with your team
More about this role
  • Develop, release and run large-scale web applications
  • Develop and define the backend architecture and tech stack for a product area
  • Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for our backend systems
  • Be involved in transitioning our monolithic codebase to a microservice-based architecture
  • Completely disrupt logistics by tackling bleeding-edge, technical problems
  • High-energy and confident - you’ll do whatever it takes to win
  • You’re an owner - driven, focused, and quick to take ownership of your work
  • Humble - you’re willing to get into the details and you’re open to feedback
  • Adaptable, resilient, and able to thrive in ambiguity - things change quickly in our fast-paced startup and you’ll need to be able to keep up!
  • Growth-minded - you’re eager to expand your skill set and excited to carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting
  • Desire for impact - ready to take on a lot of responsibility and work collaboratively with your team
  • B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 5+ years of industry experience
  • Prior experience working with backend tech stacks
  • Able to analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of...

Read the full posting on DoorDash's site ↗

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