Sr Software Engineer - Backend, Marketplace​/Maps​/Membership​/AV

About the Role

Collaborates with stakeholders within the team to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support user-facing products.

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.

• Design, 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

• 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++, Python, or Go
• 3 years of experience with backend development, building and delivering end-user products.

• 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

For New York, NY-based roles:
The base salary range for this role is USD $202,000 per year - USD $224,000 per year. For San Francisco, CA-based roles:
The base salary range for this role is USD $202,000 per year - USD $224,000 per year. For Seattle, WA-based roles:
The base salary range for this role is USD $202,000 per year - USD $224,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles:
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