Software Engineer II - Backend, Mobility & Business Platforms

About This Role

Collaborate with stakeholders to build and maintain backend services and solutions supporting user-facing products within Uber's mobility and business platforms, leveraging advanced algorithms and dynamic pricing to optimize the rides business.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable software solutions
• Collaborate with product managers, cross-engineering teams, data scientists and other partners to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications
• Identify opportunities and lead the entire development lifecycle end-to-end, from architecture design and coding to deployment
• Conduct thorough code reviews, offering constructive feedback to maintain high code quality and elevate coding standards
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential impact on our software systems and recommending appropriate integrations or improvements
• Participate in periodic on-call rotations and be available for critical issues

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
• At least 1 year of full-time Software Engineering work experience
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, C++, Python, or Go
• 1 year of experience with backend development, building and delivering end-user products

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
• At least 1 year of full-time Software Engineering work experience OR PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field. 1 year of experience with backend development, building and delivering end-user products.

Nice to Have

• Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
• More than 3 years of full-time Software Engineering work experience
• Proven experience building highly available distributed systems (at Uber scale) and working across multiple backend services
• Experience working on scalable backend systems utilizing a microservices architecture
• High bar for quality as demonstrated by code reviews, documentation, unit and integration testing
• Experience with optimization techniques and algorithmic development
• Strong problem-solving skills, with expertise in algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits