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.