SR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, BACKEND - DELIVERY PLATFORM

About the Role The Discovery Serving Team is a part of the Delivery Platform and is responsible for the development, reliability, and scalability of the Discovery Serving stack! Systems we build power Uber Eats and Grocery home feed, search, and other critical use cases! What the Candidate Will Do Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable and innovative software solutions.
Identify opportunities and lead the entire development lifecycle end-to-end, from architecture design and coding to testing and deployment.
Conduct thorough code reviews, offering constructive feedback to maintain high code quality and elevate coding standards.
Help the team understand what is important and what problems to focus on.
Identify solutions to ambiguous problems and help the team reason through tradeoffs.
Communicating with internal clients, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.
Basic Qualifications Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field, with 5+ years of full-time engineering experience.
Experience in hands-on software development with thoughtfulness of scale, latency and distributed architecture.
Highly efficient coding in Golang, Java or any similar languages.
Solid experience working with relational databases, MySQL, PostgreSQL or similar databases, on high concurrency environments.
Advanced English language skills to work with other engineers and stakeholders from different regions around the world.
Preferred Qualifications Solid systems design experience on high availability and low latency environments.
Proven experience of shipping high-quality internal platforms.
Solid experience working with non-relational databases, Cassandra, MongoDB or similar, on high concurrency environments.
A great teammate and owner - willing to take on ownership of the systems, and think about operations, maintenance and reliability of their systems.
Proven experience working with online food delivery systems and/or e-commerce platforms is a plus.
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.
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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.
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