Software Engineer — Notification Hub & Experience
DoorDash Canada · Toronto, ON ·
- Work mode
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Full time
- Category
- Software engineering
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Salary
- CAD 120,000 – 231,500 / year
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Staff backend engineer at DoorDash Canada (Toronto, onsite) owning the architecture and strategy of the Notification Hub — a high-scale, personalized notification platform serving millions of users. Work spans distributed systems design, AI/ML and LLM integration, reliability/SLA ownership, and mentoring, using languages like Go, Java, Python, C++ or Kotlin.
The Notification Hub and Experience team is a product-focused engineering team responsible for one of the company's most scalable growth levers. Our mission is to deliver intelligent, personalized notifications that reach the right user, in the right channel, at the right time. The Notification Hub is the home of comms personalized to you, where every notification a customer has ever gotten lives on, browsable and actionable, so a missed push never means a missed deal. We operate at a massive scale, and we are transitioning from a campaign-centric mode to a fully personalized experience that treats notifications as a sequential, over-time experience with continuously learning from user behavior.
We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our team. As a Staff Engineer, you are a technical leader and trusted advisor — you set the engineering excellence bar, own ambiguous cross-functional problems, and shape the roadmap for your domain. You will be the technical visionary leading our transition into high-level autonomy. You will drive the architecture and strategy for our notification experience at massive scale, while making every notification smarter, more timely, and more relevant for millions of customers.
This role requires a deep understanding of distributed systems, AI fluency, and a product-minded approach to technical leadership. You will be responsible for building a system that balances immediate conversion value against long-term reachability costs.
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Product Development
Business Outcome Ownership
Cross-Functional & Cross-Org Influence
People & Force Multiplication
Engineering Excellence & Reliability
Required:
Preferred:
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Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Base salary is localized according to employee work location.
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 for all regular employees, that includes paid time off, paid parental leave, wellness benefit and several paid holidays.
Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and basic life insurance, an RRSP including an employer match, and a mental health program, among others.
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The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographical market up to our highest geographical market within British Columbia.
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.
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