Staff Software Engineer - Backend - Membership

at  Uber

ABOUT THE TEAM

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

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, including:
• 7+ years of experience delivering, scaling, and owning highly successful and innovative software products with your fingerprints all over them - you’re extremely proud of what you’ve accomplished. You would have achieved this in one or more of the following areas:
• 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. Roadblocks don’t get in your way - they get you excited for the challenge.
• A deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented code. Abstracting and refactoring should be a passion, not a chore.
• Drive to always learn new things and go above and beyond the call of duty.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving. Always working to improve yourself and constructively support the team around you

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 testin

As a Staff 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, including:
• 7+ years of experience delivering, scaling, and owning highly successful and innovative software products with your fingerprints all over them - you’re extremely proud of what you’ve accomplished. You would have achieved this in one or more of the following areas:
• 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. Roadblocks don’t get in your way - they get you excited for the challenge.
• A deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented code. Abstracting and refactoring should be a passion, not a chore.
• Drive to always learn new things and go above and beyond the call of duty.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving. Always working to improve yourself and constructively support the team around you.

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

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