UX Design Engineer, Content Tooling

at DoorDash

Location

San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY

Compensation

$124k–$183k USD

Type

full time

Posted

1 months ago

Remote

Yes

Market range · function + seniority

$188k—$225k—$272k

p25 · target · p75 · n=800

Posted $183k · below the band

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Job description

About the Team

At DoorDash, we’re reimagining how people connect with the things they need — whether it’s a meal, a grocery run, and anything in between. Our audiences — Consumers, Dashers, and Merchants — are at the heart of everything the Design org builds. Our content design team plays a big part in this, with each content designer shaping the experience and bringing our vision to life through clear, thoughtful language that makes our three-sided marketplace easier, faster, and more human.

About the Role

We’re looking for a full stack UX Design Engineer to be the technical backbone of our global Content Design org and leader who builds the platforms, tooling, and ML systems that make world-class, localized product content effortless across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo. You’ll work at the intersection of design and engineering to build content tooling and embed LLM-driven workflows into product experiences. You’ll accelerate content design AI tooling so that CD’s can focus on the highest leverage strategic work, while your tools enable product designers and cross functional partners to ship high-quality content faster across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo.

You're excited about this opportunity because...

Design and build internal content tools that:

Help PMs and designers generate, manage, localize, and deploy product content at scale.
Plug custom GPTs and other LLMs into everyday product workflows for content iteration and improvements.

Own full-stack development of these tools:

Build and maintain frontend experiences using React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
Design and implement backend services and APIs (e.g., Kotlin/Java) to support content tooling, experimentation, and automation.

Integrate tooling with experimentation and infra:

Embed content tools into A/B testing platforms so teams can test and ship variants with minimal engineering dependency.
Build pipelines from variant generation → experiment → automated deployment of winners.

Operationalize systems and performance:

Write clean, maintainable, production-quality code and participate in code reviews.
Optimize performance and reliability across the stack, troubleshooting issues as they arise.

Collaborate across brands and teams:

Partner closely with content designers, product designers, PMs, AI infra, design systems, and localization teams across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo.

Measure impact and drive adoption:

Define and track metrics such as speed to ship, adoption, quality, and content designer time saved.

We're excited about you because...

5-8 years of experience as a Design Engineer, UX Engineer, or Senior Software Engineer building complex internal tools or platforms.
Strong frontend engineering skills with modern frameworks (React, TypeScript/JavaScript, component libraries).
Solid backend engineering experience
Experience integrating with internal services, experimentation platforms (A/B testing, feature flags), and infrastructure systems.
Proven ability to partner with designers and/or content strategists to translate workflows into scalable products.
Systems thinking and comfort designing for multi-product, multi-brand environments.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug issues across the stack.
Comfort working in ambiguous, cross-functional spaces with multiple dependencies.

Nice to have’s

Experience building internal platforms for non-engineering audiences.
Familiarity with AI-driven systems, LLM integrations, or evaluation pipelines.
Experience working in Agile environments and collaborating across distributed teams.

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Compensation

The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.

See below for paid time off details:

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).

The national base pay ranges for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$124,400—$183,000 USD

$148,200—$218,000 USD

$176,800—$260,000 USD

About DoorDash

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.

DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.

Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.

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