About the Role
The Logistics Experience team is a mobile product team focused on building innovative, affordable and efficient growth products such as UberXShare, Scheduled XShare, Add-on Orders, Bundled Orders, Priority & Saver Delivery, that serve millions of Uber users every month.
Marketplace Logistics is a central pillar to Uber's core mobility and delivery products. As the central brain of the company, we are the decision-makers enabling seamless movement from point A to point B for all Uber trips and UberEats orders. We handle all the logic from making the dispatch, predicting how long a delivery might take, and estimating optimal pickup times for orders.
At a high level the team leverage real-time marketplace dynamics to shape consumer behavior and optimize business trade-offs. We continuously aim to enhance the experience for all marketplace users, including consumers, merchants, and couriers. This includes building consumer facing products, optimizing our core algorithms and creating predictive models for order lifecycle events.
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The team addresses large-scale variations of the traveling salesperson problem in real-time. At any given time, we have tens of thousands of delivery requests and couriers looking for work in a city. Our jobs are to write software that identifies who is the best driver to complete a given request, how to batch trips or orders together that have similar routes, and when the best time is to make this decision. As you could imagine, solving this NP hard problem creates many fascinating problems around how to search the problem space, how to rapidly reach a near-optimal solution, and how to scale this process to operate within seconds. To do this, our team uses a wide variety of innovative technologies.
What You Will Do
- Build critical parts of core trip flows across the rider and eater apps. Some examples include XShare trip experience, bundled orders on UberEats, Scheduled Orders experience etc.
- Fully own features from ideation with design and product, to working with data science and backend to design experiments that continuously improve our products
- Build relationships with engineers across Marketplace teams like Surge, Matching, Demand Shaping backend & Shared Rides backend
- Implement user-facing and platform features with the latest
- iOS technologies
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or related technical field
- 5+ years of professional experience building mobile platform/frameworks or consumer facing products
- Strong focus on high-quality mobile UI experiences and feature developments
- Ability to independently own and drive projects
- Proficient with new feature development, performance testing and cross-team collaboration
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong experience with iOS Development or Swift or Objective C programming experience
- Previous contributions to creating efficiency or positive cultural initiatives within your team
- Previously worked on mobile apps that scale to millions of users
For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$185,000 per year - USD$205,500 per year.
You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.