About the Team

Our mission is to provide a world-class development experience that makes DoorDash's mobile engineers among the most productive in the industry. We achieve this by creating the libraries, tools, and frameworks that enable our product teams to ship features quickly and reliably. Because their success is our success, we are deeply invested in building a strong, collaborative mobile community that champions best practices and welcomes participation.

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team, you will build the foundational pieces for all DoorDash Mobile applications. These include runtime libraries, build systems, and development tools. You will work closely with engineers, technical product managers, and engineering managers across all parts of the engineering organization to deliver large and impactful initiatives. Additionally, you will be a culture carrier for our Mobile engineers through mentorship, education, and engagement of your peers.

You will report into the Engineering Manager of our Mobile Developer Experience team in our Developer Platform organization. You must be located in either San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Seattle, WA, or New York, NY.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Shape the future of Mobile Development. You'll directly improve how all mobile engineers work and help set the long-term technical direction for DoorDash's mobile platform. Architect and Build from the ground up. You'll design and create core mobile tools and systems, ensuring they are strong, fast, secure, and easy to maintain, while also evaluating new technologies. Solve complex, high-impact challenges. You'll solve difficult technical problems that affect many engineers and help achieve important business goals. Act as a force multiplier. Your work will directly enable product teams to build and release features faster, boosting the entire mobile engineering team's abilities. Lead and mentor. You'll guide and influence mobile engineers, including senior ones, by setting best practices and sharing knowledge to improve the team's skills. Collaborate and influence across the organization. You'll work with many teams, build agreement on technical decisions, and ensure technical efforts support company goals, explaining complex ideas clearly to everyone. We’re excited about you because… You have 10+ years of Android development experience. You have extensive experience leading and technically guiding teams of multiple mobile engineers, preferably across Android, iOS and Web. You have deep expertise with the details of Gradle or other mobile build systems, and a strong understanding of large-scale mobile development infrastructure. You have a strong product mindset and apply that to how you would build out platform services that directly impact developer productivity and experience. You love people, systems, and software and are competent working with all three, demonstrating excellent collaboration and communication skills. You’re curious and like to dive deep into different system architectures, identifying areas for improvement and innovation. You are an organized and excellent written and verbal communicator, capable of conveying complex technical information to diverse audiences.

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