Sr Software Engineer

• Backend, Marketplace/Maps/Membership/AVCollaborates with stakeholders within the team to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support user-facing products.

About the Team (We are hiring for multiple teams)We are building the future of Uber's mobility and logistics platforms. As a software engineer, you will contribute to high-scale, strategically critical systems that impact millions of users and redefine the global transportation and membership landscape. Our teams drive innovation across critical areas including:

Maps & Routing: Building the core technologies for location accuracy, sensor data processing, and state-of-the-art routing algorithms to power ETAs, navigation, and matching for all Uber products.

Uber One Membership: Enhancing user experience and growth for Uber One, a fast-growing program providing members with exclusive benefits, best prices, and priority across the platform.

Delivery Marketplace: Delivery Marketplace is a central pillar of Uber's delivery products, serving as the 'brain' of the operation. We drive every decision that enables orders to go from point A to point B from Uber Eats & Grocery, to newer verticals like Uber Direct and Connect. We're responsible for everything: from dispatch decisions, predicting food ready time, delivery times, and optimizing pickup times, to ensuring we deliver the most efficient and impactful solutions for Uber's most critical business goals

Autonomous Mobility & Delivery (AM&D): Pioneering the integration of autonomous vehicles into the existing ecosystem, tackling the complex challenge of building a reliable, efficient, and scalable hybrid marketplace for both Rides and Eats.

What You'll DoDesign, develop, and maintain robust and scalable software solutions

Collaborate with product managers, cross-engineering teams, data scientists and other partners to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications

Identify opportunities and lead the entire development lifecycle end-to-end, from architecture design and coding to deployment

Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and mentor junior engineers to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement

Participate in periodic on-call rotations and be available for critical issues

Mentor and guide other engineers, providing technical leadership and encouraging a collaborative and growth-oriented team environment

Build and maintain scalable backend services and infrastructure

Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential impact on our software systems and recommending appropriate integrations or improvements

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field with at least 3 years of full-time Software Engineering work experience OR PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field with at least 1 year of full-time Software Engineering work experience

Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, C

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3 years of experience with backend development, building and delivering end-user products.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field

More than 5 years of full-time Software Engineering work experience

Proven experience building highly available distributed systems (at Uber scale) and working across multiple backend services

Experience working on scalable backend systems utilizing a microservices architecture

High bar for quality as demonstrated by code reviews, documentation, unit and integration testing

Experience with optimization techniques and algorithmic development

Strong problem-solving skills, with expertise in algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis