Software Engineer II- 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.

About the Team (We are hiring for multiple teams)

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.

What You'll Do

* 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 of the entire development lifecycle end-to-end, from architecture design and coding to deployment

* Conduct thorough code reviews, offering constructive feedback to maintain high code quality and elevate coding standards

* 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

* Participate in periodic on-call rotations and be available for critical issues

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Basic Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field with at least 1 year of full-time Software Engineering work experience OR PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field

* Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, C++, Python, or Go

* 1 year of experience with backend development, building and delivering end-user products.

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Preferred Qualifications:

* Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field

* More than 3 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 San Francisco, CA-based roles:
The base salary range for this role is USD $171,000 per year - USD $190,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles:
The base salary range for this role is USD $171,000 per year - USD $190,000 per year.

For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link []().

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