About the Role
Staff Engineers at Uber are expected to have a deep impact on a wide variety of technology decisions, spanning many projects across an entire org, and in many cases multiple orgs. We are looking for a technologist who brings experience in multiple domains to bear on building mobile applications at scale, and who ideally has in-depth knowledge of many mobile technologies, platforms, tools, frameworks and best practices.
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.
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---- 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.
For all US locations, 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.