Engineering Manager, Money Platform

Engineering Manager, Money Platform at DoorDash

At DoorDash, we are seeking an Engineering Manager with a strong platform-oriented mindset to lead the Money Platform team. Our core mission is to build a world-class, reliable, and cost-efficient payment platform that offers exceptional flexibility and serves as a key driver of business growth.

A critical part of our work involves Payin, ensuring customers can seamlessly complete billions of dollars in transactions annually, anytime and through their preferred payment methods. Additionally, we are developing a new global unified payments technology platform designed to enable faster global product innovation and improve operational consistency across more than 40 countries.

About the Role

As the Engineering Manager, Money Platform, you will lead a talented and passionate engineering team responsible for building the systems at the heart of DoorDash's business. In this role you will:

• Redesign and modernize our global payment platform to handle the ever-growing demands of scale, reliability, and performance.
• Deliver resilient, scalable systems that support billions in transactions and enable innovative payment experiences across 40+ countries.
• Adopt an AI-native approach leveraging AI to automate routine work, optimize processes, and tackle complex challenges with fresh, data-driven insights.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, and Strategy & Operations teams to define and execute a strategic roadmap that balances foundational investments with forward-looking innovation.
• Inspire, mentor, and grow your team by fostering technical excellence, customer obsession, and a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

This is a high-impact, cross-functional leadership role where your vision and execution will directly influence how millions of customers around the world pay, earn rewards, and engage with DoorDash every day.

Why You'll Love This Opportunity

You're excited about this opportunity because you will:

• Lead and grow a team of exceptional backend and client-side engineers delivering end-to-end engineering solutions.
• Harness AI technologies to automate workflows and drive greater efficiency and innovation across payment operations.
• Be the technologist and system thinker who connects the dots between technology and the business and unlocks business opportunities through tech innovation.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, business leaders, and key stakeholders to determine the team's roadmap and vision, and manage execution against that roadmap.
• 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.
• Oversee the hiring process for your team, in partnership with recruiting, to grow a diverse and inclusive team.
• Drive key business metrics such as customer engagement and retention.

What We're Looking For

We're excited about you because you have:

• BS, MS, or PhD. in Computer Science or related field.
• 1+ years of experience in people management leading full-stack teams (backend & web).
• 6+ years of industry experience.
• Experience scaling high-volume platforms.
• Strong partnership with cross-functional peers.
• Experience in Payments or Fintech a plus, but not required.
• Experience with distributed system design, system scaling, and performance optimization.
• Humility - willing to get into the details and open to feedback.
• 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 the ability to thrive in ambiguity – things can change quickly, and you'll need to help the team evolve.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package for all regular employees, that includes paid time off, paid parental leave, wellness benefit and several paid holidays. Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and basic life insurance, an RRSP including an employer match, and a mental health program, among others.

Key skills/competency

• Platform Engineering
• Payments Systems
• Distributed Systems
• AI Applications
• Engineering Leadership
• System Scaling
• Fintech
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Technical Architecture
• Team Mentorship