DoorDash Engineering Blog

Culture General

Design Leadership Interview with Tae Kim

Learn more about what it means to be a product designer at DoorDash

DoorDash’s ML Platform – The Beginning

Learn how we increased the scalability and productivity of the data science team by building a machine learning platform

Product Leadership Interview with Kevin Fu

Learn about the DoorDash product organization: their mission goals and culture

Design Leadership Interview with Radhika Bhalla

Learn what its like to be a UX researcher at DoorDash from our head of UX, Radhika Bhalla

Design Leadership Interview with Will DiMondi

Learn more about the design team at DoorDash

Supercharging DoorDash’s Marketplace Decision-Making with Real-Time Knowledge

DoorDash is a dynamic logistics marketplace that serves three groups of customers: Merchant partners who prepare food or other deliverables, Dashers who carry the deliverables to their destinations, Consumers who savor a freshly prepared meal from a local restaurant or a bag of groceries from their local grocery store. For such a real-time platform as ...

Next-Generation Optimization for Dasher Dispatch at DoorDash

Learn how we optimized dasher selection using data science

Organizing Machine Learning: Every Flavor Welcome!

Learn how we organized our ML team including its vision, values and organizational structure

Personalized Cuisine Filter

The consumer shopping experience is a key focus area at DoorDash. We want to provide consumers an enjoyable shopping experience by providing the right recommendation to the right consumer at the right time for the right location. On our app, there are cuisine filters on the top of the explore page. We have built a ...

WINE Hangover!

Learn about the DoorDash women in engineering leadership forum program and its first cohort of participants

Becoming a Leader as a First-Generation Immigrant

Although we’re living in an era in which many companies advocate for diversity and inclusion, I am often still the only female director in the room in the tech industry. Even more often, I find myself to be the only first-generation immigrant who learned English as a second language. This is interesting given almost 27% of the ...

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 ...