Uber Staff Backend Engineer - Rider Core 

United States, West Virginia 

24014079

About the Role

What the Candidate Will Do ----

• Provide technical leadership to a passionate, experienced, and diverse engineering team. Design and build the next major generations of the flagship Uber app.
• Develop an excellent understanding of Uber’s business strategy and goals, and the Rider org’s product and design goals. You will be one of our key leaders expected to identify and solve our highest impact, highly complex problems.
• See the big picture and identify inefficiencies and opportunities for meaningful improvements across the entire Rider org and Uber as a whole. Drive alignment on how to tackle these and lead the delivery of high leverage solutions for them to have the widest impact.
• Raise the bar to make Uber engineering truly best-in-class by improving best practices, producing exemplary code, documentation, automated tests and thorough and precise monitoring.
• Staff level engineers at Uber are exceptional mentors. They are trusted advisors for both team members and leaders alike.

- - - - Basic Qualifications ----

• 8+ years of total software development experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Systems or a similar field
• Experience in crafting and developing large scale distributed systems and scalable backend services using a microservices architecture
• Strong language skills using Go, Java, C++, C#, and/or Python

- - - - Preferred Qualifications ----

• Strong product platform focus and acumen.
• Experience creating and leading technical architecture for a large consumer focused app.
• Proven ability to develop other strong senior engineers into Staff engineers, operating and leading their own initiatives with org-wide scope and high impact.
• Experience designing and building server-side APIs and components that interface with mobile applications.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$218,000 per year - USD$242,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$218,000 per year - USD$242,000 per year.