SSE (L5) - BE

Responsibilities:

Identify new impactful opportunities to evolve the Uber One program across Uber Eats and UberX.

Collaborate with talented engineers, PMs, data scientists, and designers from across the company to design, build, and optimize products used by millions of members globally.

Architect robust, highly available, and scalable systems designed to resolve ambiguous technical challenges to serve millions of users. Align the org on complex trade-offs between various technical designs and solutions.

Drive technical strategy for platform evolution, microservices architecture, and API design to simplify future program needs.

Cultivate engineering culture and technical excellence to drive up engineering velocity and quality across the team.

Requirements:

5+ years of work experience in software engineering building large-scale systems.

Bachelor's (or higher) in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

Strong hands-on technical skills, including proficiency in one or more programming languages (Go, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, C++) and code reviews.

Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, system design, and architecture.

Proven experience in owning critical and large-scale platforms and infra services. Proven experience in identifying architectural gaps and creating org-wide frameworks that improve developer velocity and reduce systemic technical debt.

Proven ability to lead technical projects end-to-end through all lifecycle stages, from inception through design through global deployment and productionization.

Expertise in defining standards for testing, monitoring, and alerting systems, while overseeing the execution of complex incident management at an organizational level.

Demonstrated leadership in building relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to rally around a technical vision.

Preferred Qualifications:

Marketplace experience: Uber's business model is marketplace-heavy, and prior experience creating 0 to 1 features and optimizing marketplaces is preferred. Experience in real-time marketplace platforms requiring high consistency and global reliability.

Impact Mindset:

Ability to navigate complex org and company business needs.

Ability to identify consumer needs through user research and data analysis.

Bringing those together to build products and systems that bring value to our customers and deliver company impact

Strong CR Technical Collaboration:

Strong ability to collaborate and communicate technically with multiple teams across the company.

Strong ability to deep dive into complex technical systems owned by other organizations.

Create clean technical solutions that factor in complexities across multiple systems and ultimately solve for multiple team goals.