Engineering Manager, Order Platform Checkout

DoorDash USA · New York, NY

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • $193,800 – $285,000
  • Posted 2026-11-09
  • Confirmed live on 10 November 2026

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Job description

About the Team

DoorDash is looking for an Engineering Manager with a strong platform mindset to lead the Order Platform Checkout team. This team’s mission is to deliver reliable, feature-rich, and extensible platform services that power seamless customer experiences, enabling frictionless order completion. This is a chance to lead a high-impact platform team with real company leverage and help shape the long-term foundation for DoorDash ordering at global scale.

About the Role

As the Engineering Manager for the Order Platform Checkout team, you will lead a team of talented and driven backend engineers in building impactful features and scalable platforms. You will partner closely with engineering teams across the organization to deliver on a strategic roadmap that strengthens the platform’s foundation and elevates customer satisfaction. Through your leadership, you will ensure the creation of robust, reliable systems that enable best-in-class products and technological innovation.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Be the technologist and system thinker who connects the dots between technology to the business and unlocks business opportunities through tech innovation

• Lead high-impact tech initiatives that shape our order systems

• Provide architectural guidance and professional development for a team of 8+

• Encourage innovation, teamwork, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, and outside-of-the-box thinking

• Scale the team by recruiting, retaining and developing highly talented engineers across different disciplines

We’re excited about you because you have…

• B.S., M.S., or PhD in Computer Science or related field

• 2+ years of experience in people management leading backend teams

• 7+ years of industry experience

• Strong product sense and can be a thought partner with cross-functional peers

• Deep platform expertise and dedication to engineering craftsmanship

• A customer-centric mindset and will apply that to building out platform services

• Growth mindset - you're eager to expand your skill set and excited to carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting

• Adaptability, resiliency, and ability to thrive in ambiguity - things can change quickly, and you'll need to help the team evolve

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

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

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