About the Team
DoorDash is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Search Experience engineering team. This team is responsible for building the end-to-end consumer Search experience, including Search result surfaces, interaction patterns, and Search-driven product innovations.
The Search Experience team is part of DoorDash's Core Consumer / Search organization, which owns the very top of the consumer funnel from the initial landing page through checkout across iOS, Android, and Web. As Search becomes the primary entry point to DoorDash across restaurants, grocery, and emerging verticals, delivering an intuitive, fast, and delightful Search experience is more critical than ever.
About the Role
You will lead a team of product-focused full stack engineers building the systems and experiences that define how consumers discover, explore, and interact with Search on DoorDash. This role partners closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and Search Quality/Platform teams to translate Search relevance and intelligence into polished, high-impact consumer experiences.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will...
- Lead and grow a team of full stack engineers delivering high-quality, end-to-end Search experiences used by millions of consumers
- Own backend systems and APIs that power Search experiences across mobile and web platforms
- Partner closely with Product and Design to define the vision, roadmap, and execution for Search experiences
- Drive product velocity while maintaining high standards for reliability, performance, and user experience
- Influence how Search intelligence and ML capabilities are surfaced through intuitive, consumer-first experiences
- Build an inclusive, high-performing team by coaching engineers, supporting career growth, and scaling the team as impact grows
We're excited about you because...- 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 in 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
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Compensation
The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee's work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.
In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.
DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.
To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.
See below for paid time off details:
- For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
- For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).
The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.
$193,800-$285,000 USD
About DoorDashAt 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. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.
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. We're committed to supporting employees' happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.
Our Commitment to Diversity and InclusionWe're committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That's why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
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