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# backend software engineer

- **Company:** DOORDASH, INC.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Geographic Information Systems, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Unit Testing, PostgreSQL, Redis, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Backend, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Restful APIs, Grpc, Docker
- **Published:** September 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/a7652c61-d4c2-4d88-88df-182113e80ff8/software-engineer-backend-autonomous-delivery-platform

## About the Role

- 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
, - Familiarity with Kotlin
- gRPC, Kafka, Redis, Postgres, or Cassandra
- AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
- Familiarity with geospatial data and mapping technologies (GIS)


## Description

DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We're hiring a backend software engineer to work at the intersection of software engineering and robotics to solve key business problems with elegant technical solutions. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions to a service loved by millions of people, then we want to talk to you!

## **About the Role**

We're looking for Backend Engineers to work on both Product and Product Platform based teams in DoorDash Labs. Product focused Engineers work at the intersection of product and infrastructure to solve key business problems with elegant technical solutions. You'll operate our backend services and architecture that support all product functionality and will be challenged to consider the big picture -- collaborating cross-functionally, as well as evaluating and executing on trade-offs to maximize business impact for the company.

## **You're excited about this opportunity because you will...**

- 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.

## **We're excited about you because you have...**




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