Uber Senior Software Engineer 

United States, West Virginia 

250872694

- - - - What the Candidate Will Do ----

1. Design, scale, code, monitor and maintain highly critical set of services
2. Contribute, lead, own and deliver multiple high impact and complex projects/features
3. Learn by working on the job with senior engineers on even bigger and complex problems impacting multiple products and teams across Uber
4. Mentor and groom junior engineers

- - - - Basic Qualifications ----

1. MS/BS in Computer science and at least 5 years of individual contributor experience as a software engineer
2. Coding chops, clean, elegant, bug-free code in any of the following languages - Java, C++, GO
3. The ability to go deep, but also appreciate the challenge of going broad. Uber has a huge stack, and we're all over it: backend services, real-time dispatch, machine learning, mobile, web development, data and analytics, infrastructure, marketing systems.
4. Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture - consensus, convergence, load balancing, data consistency and performance/efficiency constructs
5. Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues
6. Intelligence. High adaptability. Ability to learn quickly.
7. Strong desire to learn and grow, while building the best in class systems
8. Strong flair for effective communication and collaboration - you know when to push on and when to step back
9. An ability to have fun while working on the hardest problems

- - - - Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Prior experience as a tech lead who has mentored/led small teams in building product features at scale
2. Prior experience in fintech, payments, compliance domain
3. Prior experience in working with applications at scale
4. Prior experience in goLang

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