What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

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

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

---- Basic Qualifications ----

• MS/BS in Computer science and at least 3 years of individual contributor experience as a software engineer
• Coding chops, clean, elegant, bug-free code in any of the following languages - Java, C++, GO
• 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.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture - consensus, convergence, load balancing, data consistency and performance/efficiency constructs
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues
• Intelligence. High adaptability. Ability to learn quickly.
• Strong desire to learn and grow, while building the best in class systems
• Strong flair for effective communication and collaboration - you know when to push on and when to step back
• An ability to have fun while working on the hardest problems

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

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

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward, together.

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.

*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.