DoorDash Canada

Software Engineer, Backend - Unified Gateway

Toronto, ON · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$120k-$150kDetected 12 days ago

KotliniOSAndroidDistributed SystemsRESTgRPCOpenAPILogisticsContract ManagementLoad BalancingCommunication

About the role

It centrally handles authentication, authorization, request and response mapping, header propagation, encryption, and resilience, and powers experiences across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo spanning iOS, Android, and Web.
Reliability: A safe programming model, centralized management, and standardized practices enhance system stability and reduce errors.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

Product engineers can iterate faster and deliver features more quickly.
The platform empowers product engineers to declaratively define, test, deploy, and operate their API endpoints without standing up and managing their own edge services.
By providing this robust platform, we deliver significant improvements in:
Velocity: Product engineers can iterate faster and deliver features more quickly.
Help us build the world's most reliable, on-demand logistics engine for last-mile delivery!
We're bringing on experienced engineers to help us create and maintain a 24x7, no downtime, global infrastructure system that powers DoorDash's three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers.
Design and build robust, scalable systems with engineering excellence and long-term maintainability in mind.
Drive best practices in API management, service discovery, load balancing, and fault tolerance.
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.

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

Improve performance, reliability, scalability, and security across the gateway and its request-processing pipeline.
Champion adoption of the Unified Gateway platform across product teams.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in our high-throughput production environment.
You have 2+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
You have experience with gRPC, REST APIs, Protocol Buffers, and service-to-service communication patterns.
familiarity with asynchronous/reactive frameworks such as Vert.x is a plus.
You have experience working on high-throughput, mission-critical production systems.
You have a strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including consistency, fault tolerance, load balancing, and resilience patterns.

Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location.
Base salary is localized according to employee work location.
In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants.
The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographical market up to our highest geographical market within British Columbia.
$120,000 - $150,000 CAD

That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package for all regular employees, that includes paid time off, paid parental leave, wellness benefit and several paid holidays.
Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and basic life insurance, an RRSP including an employer match, and a mental health program, among others.
To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.

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