Engineering Manager, DoorDash
Affordability
$201.9-302.9k
Local food delivery platform
Open for applications
Local food delivery platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$201.9-302.9k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower local economies by connecting food lovers with great local restaurants
Role
Who you are
- DoorDash is seeking a seasoned full-stack Engineering Manager with a strong product sense to lead the Affordability team in the San Francisco Bay Area
- You have a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent
- You have 7+ years of industry experience, including minimum of 2 years of management experience
- You have experience managing engineering disciplines across BE + Android + iOS + Web
- You bring a strong product sense and can be a thought partner with cross-functional peers
- You have hands-on experience working with non-technical stakeholders, cross-team collaboration, and building scalable products in a fast-paced environment
- You have the ability to handle ambiguity and work with product and business partners to collect non-technical requirements to design and build scalable experience solutions
- You have the ability to guide and grow an excellent engineering team in a rapidly changing business environment
What the job involves
- This team ensures that all customers can discover affordable options within their budget and make well-informed purchase decisions by discerning the items offering the best value
- The team’s scope spans both client applications and backend development and will require close coordination with the machine learning and platform teams. The goal of this team is to make DoorDash the ultimate destination that delivers unparalleled value and satisfaction
- You'll be at the crossroads of product and platform teams, tackling pivotal business challenges with refined technical innovations. Your focus will be on crafting a top-tier shopping journey spanning various interfaces like the homepage, search, store, and item screens within the DoorDash app
- Moreover, you'll spearhead the team's technical roadmap and implementation, ensuring the development of robust, highly accessible, and easily adaptable engineering systems
- Your role will entail a holistic perspective, involving cross-functional collaboration and astute evaluation of trade-offs to optimize the company's business impact
- You will work at the intersection of product, technology, and business to lead a full-stack team
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to define the roadmap and vision for the team and deliver an immense impact
- Lead an outstanding team by coaching engineers, empowering engineers through delegation, and applying your technical expertise to hold your team to the highest engineering standards
- Inspire the team with your technical vision and create the alignment necessary to execute on it
- Scale the team by recruiting, retaining, and developing highly talented engineers across different disciplines
Our take
DoorDash was an early entrant into the last-mile restaurant delivery business, which is now crowded with the likes of Uber Eats, Postmates and GrubHub. They offer restaurants an end-to-end delivery platform, generating new business and access to a network of delivery drivers.
To differentiate itself in the market, DoorDash focused on areas with fewer competitors and found success in this untapped market. Other factors, such as the company's targeting of restaurants which many not typically offer a delivery service, also contribute to its profitability. The company made its stock market debut in 2020 with one of the biggest IPOs of the year.
However, in light of increasing discontent around DoorDash's commission structure from restaurants, competition remains fierce. The business recently responded by publishing a transparent fee structure, but the number of options open to restaurants means DoorDash must fight to keep its customers loyal. Despite this, by focusing on consumer retention, logistics and technology, the company is likely able to maintain its existing growth and revenue.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2020
$400m
SERIES H
Nov 2019
$100m
SERIES G
Total funding: $2.5bn
Company benefits
- Company stock options
- Work from home stipend
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- We are doers
- We are learners
- We are leaders
- We are one team
Company HQ
Mid-Market, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Tony Xu
(CEO)Tony studied at UCB and worked as a Matrix Partners Associate while studying for an MBA at Stanford. He combined this experience to co-found DoorDash in January 2013, and has served as CEO since June 2013.
Stanley Tang
(CPO)Previously studied Computer Science at Stanford, before working at Facebook as a Software Engineer.
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