Software Engineer, Frontend - Brazil

Large e-commerce companies often face the challenge of displaying enticing product images while also ensuring fast loading speeds on high-traffic pages of their website. At DoorDash, we confronted this issue because our home page — the primary vehicle for our online marketplace's success — was plagued with slow download speeds that were hurting the user experience and our SEO page rankings. Our solution was to implement server-side rendering for high-traffic pages, which involved overcoming numerous challenges. In this article, we enumerate those challenges and how we approached them in order to build successful server-side rendering and prove it was effective.

DoorDash is a technology company that connects people with the best in their cities. We do this by empowering local businesses and in turn, bolstering local economies. We started by facilitating door-to-door delivery, but we see this as just the beginning of connecting people with possibility — easier evenings, happier days, stronger communities.