Engineering Manager, Parcel

DoorDash is looking for an Engineering Manager with strong product sense to oversee building out transportation and logistics strategies for long-distance deliveries across the US. This team focuses on both zero-to-one initiatives and scaling mid-maturity businesses to unlock merchant growth and earnings opportunities for drivers. The team’s work spans mobile, backend, and web components, including integrating with external transportation aggregators and developing in-house Transportation Management Systems (TMS). The goal is to build industry-leading mid-mile transportation and logistics systems enabling any third-party business to deliver items anywhere in their city and across the US.

About the role

• Provide technical guidance, leadership, and development for a team growing to 8+ engineers across Android, FullStack, and Backend.
• Own the hiring process for your team, in partnership with recruiting, to grow a diverse and inclusive team.
• Collaborate with business and engineering leaders at multinational corporations to understand their business needs and formulate them into a world-class product.
• Engage with key internal business stakeholders to define the roadmap and vision for the product.
• Partner with analytics and data counterparts to measure the impact and success of products and features delivered.

What excites us about you

• Strong hands-on technical leadership.
• Strong product intuition.
• Able to lead full-stack engineering teams—backend, mobile, and some web.
• High-energy and driven—you’ll do whatever it takes to win.
• You’re an owner—driven, focused, and quick to take ownership of your work.
• Humble—willing to get into the details and open to feedback.
• Adaptable, resilient, and able to thrive in ambiguity—things change quickly in a fast-paced startup.
• Growth-minded—eager to expand your skill set and excited to carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting.
• Desire for impact—ready to take on responsibility and work collaboratively with your team.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in people management, ideally leading a team of 8+ and managing senior engineers.
• Prior experience working on a user-facing product.
• Extensive experience as an engineer in a product-focused development environment.

Pay

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado, is $193,800—$285,000 USD. In addition to base salary, compensation includes opportunities for equity grants.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including a 401(k) plan with employer matching.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Wellness benefits and commuter benefits match.
• Paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g., Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act).
• 11 paid holidays.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Disability and basic life insurance.
• Family-forming assistance and a mental health program.

Schedule

• 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).