David
Phan
Backend Culture Data General Machine Learning Mobile Web
DoorDash recaps a number of its engineering highlights from 2020, including its microservices architecture, data platform, and new frontend development.
WayneCunningham
Mobile Web
Adding the concept of Theming to DoorDash's design language system made it easier for engineers to use standardized design elements in all of our products.
Lindsey
Menges
Mobile
Learn how a Fluent design pattern can help create easy to read, scaleable, automated UI tests for Android development
Nishant
Soni
Mobile
Learn how we we were able to utilize the Android Navigation library without sacrificing user experience
Maria
Sharkina
Mobile
DoorDash has been on a hiring binge since the company was founded, often doubling or tripling in size each year. Over the last 2-3 years, this was particularly true for our Android teams as the platform has become more critical to the company. We’ve been aggressively growing our Android teams and will continue to do ...
Martin
Beechen
Mobile
Since joining DoorDash about a year and a half ago, I have been able to work on a number of teams as an iOS engineer such as Dasher, Drive, Geo-Intelligence, and Internationalization. I’ve built core flows for our delivery process, merchant specific features such as Catering Setup and Parking Stalls, and a number of required ...
Raza
Padhani
Culture Mobile
Here at DoorDash, I work as a mobile engineer and I have been interviewing candidates for about a year now. I often get asked why I joined DoorDash so I thought I would expand on that in a blogpost. I joined DoorDash on July 23rd, 2018 and I did so because we’re solving the logistics ...
Raza
Padhani
Mobile
At DoorDash we are consistently making an effort to increase our user experience by increasing our app’s stability. A major part of this effort is to prevent, fix and remove any retain cycles and memory leaks in our large codebase. In order to detect and fix these issues, we have found the Memory Graph Debugger ...
Vince
Chau
Mobile
Introduction As we migrate our systems to a microservices-oriented architecture at DoorDash, we have taken care to balance the excitement around anticipated benefits (development velocity, deployment independence, etc.) with a more measured assessment of our preparedness to work with the complexities introduced by more distributed systems. One of the most common pain points with microservices — or, ...
Erich
Douglass
Wei
Lin
Steven
Liu
Yen
Pai
Mobile
By Rohan Shanbhag and Wei Lin, Software Engineers Most Android apps rely on network calls to a set of backend services. As an app grows, so does the complexity of network calls and data operations. Networking libraries like Retrofit and Volley provide all the functionality needed for basic API calls. However, for threading and sequencing of events beyond a ...
Rohan
Shanbhag
Wei
Lin
Mobile
At DoorDash we recently migrated the codebase of our iOS Consumer and Dasher apps to Swift 3 from Swift 2. We decided to migrate the codebase after XCode 8.3 was released in March, which ended support for Swift 2.3. The newest versions of many third party libraries used by our apps are written in Swift ...
James
Chiang
Mobile
At DoorDash, mobile is an integral part of our end user experience. Consumers, Dashers, and merchants rely on our mobile apps every day for delivery. And our Android team moves fast to ship impactful features that improve the user experience and the efficiency of our platform. In the past, we verified the functionality of our ...
Rohan
Shanbhag
Thomas
Belluscio