Staff Software Engineer - Backend

About The Team

Uber One is a membership program with over 20 million members across 30 different countries and is constantly growing. The Membership team is responsible for developing and reinventing the Uber and UberEats app to be a member-first experience, focusing on price and perks. You will be part of a highly collaborative team designed to maximize your ability to deliver results. Your work will impact the foundations of Uber around the world, building the biggest lever for Uber.

About The Role

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will work on code that's crucial to today's eaters and future consumers. Your work will impact Uber's foundations globally, building the most significant lever for Uber. In an industry synonymous with convenience, Uber Members will get a unique experience: a single platform across all their on-demand needs, anywhere in the world, guaranteeing the best price, selection, priority, and perks.

You will lead major projects and drive cross-team collaboration with engineers across various product teams, including UberEats, Rides, FinTech, and more. Your work will deliver impact across various products and business lines. If you are interested in building product-facing systems, solving complex system problems, improving user experience, and driving Uber's top-line metrics, Membership is the team for you.

What The Staff Backend Engineer Will Do

• Design, develop, and enhance solutions used by millions of members, collaborating with a talented team of engineers, Product Managers, and Designers.
• Write high-quality code and uphold standards for testing and coverage.
• Align cross-functional teams on solutions to ambiguous problems and analyze the tradeoffs of different technical solutions in the best interests of Uber.
• Cultivate and uplevel engineering culture in terms of quality, monitoring, and on-call practices.
• Identify opportunities and improve our org's operations and promote best practices.

Must Have Skills/Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field OR 5 years of full-time Software Engineering work experience.
• 7+ years of experience delivering, scaling, and owning highly successful and innovative software products.
• Proven record of engineering and coding skills. Ability to write high-performance production quality code.
• Experience in Go, Python, Java, C, C++ or other equivalent languages.
• Perseverance to get things done with a focus on shipping online production systems.
• A deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented code.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving.

Nice To Have Skills/Experience

• Strong plus for the ability to work across the stack and familiarity with mobile platforms and ML systems.
• High bar for quality as shown by code reviews, documentation, unit and integration testing.

Note: The 7 years of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education, full-time work experience, additional training, coursework, research, or a combination of these.