Engineering Manager, Dasher Insurance

About the Team

DoorDash is seeking a talented Engineering Manager to lead our newly formed Dasher Insurance team, part of the Dasher Engagement pillar, which focuses on three key principles: ensuring Dashers understand quality through clear feedback, motivating improvements with a suite of rewards, and building genuine respect by positioning DoorDash as a trusted partner in Dashers' financial journeys.

The Dasher Insurance team is revolutionizing safety and security for our most valuable partners—our Dashers. We're tackling ambitious technical challenges at the intersection of real-time safety systems, machine learning, and insurance tech. Our team is developing products to mitigate real-world risks through intelligent routing and safety alerts, provide instant support when incidents occur, and streamline claims through automated processes—all while gathering invaluable data that makes our platform safer with each delivery.

This isn't just about insurance—it's about building technology that keeps Dashers safe, rewards quality, and demonstrates our commitment to their financial security. Our goal is to create a platform where Dashers feel genuinely protected and valued, choosing DoorDash because of the comprehensive safety net we provide and the respect we show through our technology investments.

About the Role

As the manager for the Dasher Insurance team, you will lead a growing team of mobile, fullstack and backend engineers. You'll tackle high-visibility technical challenges like building real-time safety monitoring systems, creating ML models to analyze and mitigate incidents, and engineering robust platforms for insurance product integration and delivery. 

You will be responsible for driving the technical vision, strategy, and execution of the team charter. You will also collaborate greatly with product, design, operations and peer engineering teams to deliver solutions that fundamentally improve Dasher safety while unlocking new business opportunities from insurance products distributed through our platform. This is a greenfield opportunity to build systems that will scale to millions of Dashers and billions of deliveries.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Lead the technical vision, strategy, and execution of the team charter, working alongside cross-functional partners
• Lead the identification and conception of scalable systems that power insurance offerings while prioritizing Dasher safety and making Dashing easier and more seamless
• Build systems and products that have a tangible impact on Dashers and a direct business impact on DoorDash
• Scale the team by growing internal talent and attracting world-class talent
• Grow in your career with unique and challenging opportunities to expand your skill set

We’re excited about you because…

• You’re an owner - driven, focused, and quick to take ownership of your work
• You are impact driven - you sign up for and drive high-business impact
• A strong hands-on technical leader and strong product sense
• Humble - you’re willing to get into the details and you’re open to feedback
• You have 2+ years of engineering leadership experience as an EM on a full-stack team 
• You have 7+ years of industry experience
• You have experience navigating ambiguous business problems and tackling high-scale technical challenges

 

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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, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act) (for salaried roles: flexible 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), 16 weeks of paid parental leave, a wellness benefit, and a commuter benefit match.

Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash 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.

The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographical market up to our highest geographical market within the United States.$193,800—$285,000 USDAbout 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 with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering 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.

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