Uber Staff Software Engineer 

United States, West Virginia 

244665769

About the Role

As part of the Java Service Platform team, you’ll help lead a group of experts that focus on delivering a best-in-class service development experience for thousands of Uber developers. You will leverage the latest technologies in open source, work with talented, high-velocity infrastructure partners and impact stakeholders across product backend domains serving Uber Mobility, Delivery, Market Place, Monetization and more.

Being a pragmatic technologist, you will be able to design tools, frameworks and workflows to support highly available and scalable services. You would be seen as a collaborative role model and thought leader within a larger group. You will architect and build libraries and frameworks that empower a large and quickly-growing engineering organization to do its best work, moving fast without sacrificing stability, quality, performance or maintainability. You will also be able to technically mentor a team of talented engineers while also executing on delivering uniquely challenging projects. Along the way, you’ll shape the future of engineering at Uber.

What the Candidate Will Do

• Drive the development of Java service standards and best practices at Uber.
• Design, develop and maintain world-class Java components to support Uber services at scale.
• Provide consultation & work closely with other business and infrastructure areas/departments on multiple initiatives to meet common organizational / business goals & objectives.
• Participate in and provide consulting & planning guidance on short term & long term planning in order to meet ongoing business & operational needs.
• Work closely with engineers across the company to solve critical software development problems in principled and reusable ways.

Basic Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of Spring and Spring Boot framework.
• Solid understanding of Java, including common tools, frameworks and best practices.
• Experience leading, designing, contributing to, or maintaining Java libraries or frameworks.
• Experience building reusable tools, packages and software patterns for developers.
• Passion for software quality, including testing, code review, and documentation.
• Desire to contribute to open source.
• Strong cross-team communication skills.
• B.S., M.S., or Ph. D. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading, contributing to, or maintaining open-source projects.
• Experience as a technology-specific speaker or evangelist.
• Background in infrastructure and distributed systems.

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