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Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Delivery Logistics

Backend, Engineering
in New York, New York

About the Role

The Fulfillment Platform supports business verticals at Uber to develop their trip fulfillment flow and seamlessly integrate pricing, matching, dynamics, and other marketplace capabilities into their product. We support Uber Rider businesses (pool, airports, hourly rentals, intercity trips, reservations, package delivery, Uber Health) and Uber Delivery businesses (groceries, Uber Eats, delivery API).

We model the shopping, ordering, matching & dispatching, and tracking phases of any business and operate the life cycles of orders, trips, drivers, eaters, and other user sessions when they interact with Uber. These interactions are real-time and high-scale when millions of concurrent riders, drivers, and eaters use Uber.

What You'll Do

  • Unlock new Uber businesses by partnering with product vertical teams
  • Collaborate efficiently & provide business value with timeline launch of critical projects
  • Produce consistent high quality code across all projects
  • Bring in your passionate self and positively impact the team around you
  • Coordinate multiple stakeholder to build complex end to end features
  • Identify common patterns and improve platform
  • Ensure system reliability across all critical system

Basic Qualifications

  • PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field AND 2-years full-time Software Engineering work experience OR 5-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 3-years total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Programming language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Python, or Go)
  • Note the 3-years total of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education and full-time work experience, additional training, coursework, research, or similar (OR some combination of these).  The years of specialized experience are not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience developing and shipping code for production systems
  • Detailed problem-solving approach and knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis
  • Understanding of distributed system and architecture
  • Experience with scalability and product engineering

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$218,000 per year - USD$242,000 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.

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