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Building Chat Into the DoorDash App to Improve Deliveries

Learn how we overcame the technical challenges of implementing chat quickly and efficiently for all our Dasher and consumer applications.

Marina Mukhina Mobile

Launching Dark Mode While Building a Scalable Design System

A large number of our DoorDash deliveries happen during the evening and in late night hours. Dashers, our delivery partners, were finding it really hard to use the Dasher app because the app’s bright screens did not adapt to the lower lighting conditions. The abundance of white in the design meant that critical information, such ...

Pradeep Devarabetta Mallikarjun Laura Rodriguez Gerardo Diaz Mobile

Building Multiple Distinctly Branded iOS Apps from a Single Codebase

A scalable solution for supporting multiple iOS apps means leveraging a common app library and design language system.

David Phan Backend Culture Data General Machine Learning Mobile Web

2020 Hindsight: Building Reliability and Innovating at DoorDash

DoorDash recaps a number of its engineering highlights from 2020, including its microservices architecture, data platform, and new frontend development.

WayneCunningham Mobile Web

Implementing Theming in DoorDash’s Design Language System

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

A Framework For Speedy and Scalable Development Of Android UI Tests

Learn how a Fluent design pattern can help create easy to read, scaleable, automated UI tests for Android development

Nishant Soni Mobile

Avoiding Conditional Navigation Pitfalls When Implementing the Android Navigation Library

Learn how we we were able to utilize the Android Navigation library without sacrificing user experience

Maria Sharkina Mobile

Our “Tech Stack” in the Android Dasher App

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

[Series] How I Spend My Time – iOS Mobile Product Engineer

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

Why I Chose to Join DoorDash as an iOS Engineer

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

How to detect iOS memory leaks and retain cycles using Xcode’s memory graph debugger

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

Contract Testing with Pact

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

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