DoorDash is looking for an Engineering Manager with product sense to lead teams within Growth in the Bay Area or Seattle. This team is responsible for handling a number of initiatives that will fuel DoorDash's growth in the coming years and beyond. These teams consist of engineers from backend, frontend, mobile and ML backgrounds and partner with a number of cross functional orgs throughout DoorDash. The Growth team is responsible for the products that help us acquire millions of new DoorDash customers every quarter and drive millions of incremental orders every month.
About the RoleWe’re looking for an Engineering Manager with expertise in Growth, Product Engineering, or Notifications to help scale DoorDash’s customer engagement through smarter, more impactful notifications. As a key technical leader, you’ll partner closely with Product, Analytics, Content, Marketing, Ops, and Engineering to craft personalized experiences that drive meaningful customer actions. You’ll lead a team to define and execute the roadmap - whether that’s determining the right moment and channel to inform a customer about a relevant promo, or helping shape the future of our notification infrastructure. Your work may span applying LLMs to content generation, leveraging ML to optimize send time and targeting, scaling our platform, and introducing new engagement notifications tailored to user needs. If you're excited about growing customer impact through intelligent and scalable notification experience, this role is for you.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Build and scale a talented team of backend engineers, working alongside Product, Analytics, Frontend, and ML partners to shape the future of customer engagement Create an environment where engineers grow through mentorship, ownership, and execute with high standards of engineering excellence Foster a culture of curiosity and lead a data-driven problem solving, where insights guide decisions and innovation Own the problem spaces, direction and tech vision in collaboration with cross-functional teams Have opportunities to innovate with cutting-edge AI technologies (e.g., LLMs, recommendation models) to elevate our customer engagement experience Help shape a culture that thrives on diving into details, obsessing over customer impact, and delivering meaningful results We’re excited about you because… B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field 7+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years of engineering management Proven ability to build and scale customer-facing products in fast-paced, high-growth environments Good product sense with strong a track record of partnering effectively with Product, Design, and Analytics to shape user experiences Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, especially in working with non-technical stakeholders to turn ambiguous problems into scalable solutions A passion for mentoring and growing engineers, and leading teams through change with clarity and empathy A bias for action and deep ownership—balancing high-level vision with attention to execution and details Why You’ll Love Working at DoorDash We are leaders - Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something everyone at DoorDash embraces and embodies. We are doers - We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do -- on every project, every day. We are learning - We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job, whether we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute. We are all DoorDash - The magic of DoorDash is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights. You grow here faster than other places because we move and grow fast. You practice muscles like leading through chaos, ruthless prioritization, and crisis management.
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