Staff Software Engineer - Backend, Uber Health

Uber for Business (U4B) is Uber’s strategic focus on enterprise business and Uber Health is one of the fastest growing verticals under U4B. As a staff software engineer on Uber Health team, you will be leading on architecting the large scale web services powering Uber Health products and systems, designing reliable, scalable and extensible backend systems that support new features and launching high business impact and technical challenging projects along with a great team.

At Uber Health, our vision is to reimagine the way people access healthcare. Since launch in 2018, we have delivered a HIPAA compliant technology solution that’s helped tens of thousands of patients and caregivers get to and from care leveraging Uber as the non-emergency medical transportation. Recently, Uber Health has transcended to a Health Hub that delivers a better patient experience with transportation, same-day prescription, and home delivery for groceries and over-the-counter items, enhancing benefit coordination.

We are a tight knit group of passionate and talented engineers, designers, data scientists, product managers, and account managers. We pride ourselves on our collaborative and open culture. Visit Uber for Business and Uber Health to learn more.

What the Candidate Will Do ----

1. Architect, develop and optimize Uber Health and sister products backend systems to support growing business needs.
2. Be a thought leader and partner, work with key cross functional stakeholders and identify future business opportunities and define technical vision/roadmap.
3. Lead cross-team efforts within U4B that deliver meaningful results across engineering, product, design and data science. Work in close collaboration with other specialists, product managers, designers, and operations to ship useful and fabulous experiences to our customers
4. Go-to person to lead an end to end product development cycle. Get clarity of problem statements from designers and product managers, break projects into meaningful tasks, and deliver the project with metrics and data with fellow engineers.
5. Provide technical leadership in designing, implementing, testing and rolling out the next generations of the flagship Uber Health, Uber Central and Uber Transit systems. Create frameworks and abstractions that are reliable, reusable and avoid surprising outcomes.
6. Be a humble mentor and trusted advisor for both our hardworking team members and passionate leaders alike. Deal with a difference in opinions in a mature and fair way, helping teams to commit and move forward.

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. 8+ years relevant engineering experience in successfully designing and building large scale, highly available and reliable engineering systems addressing real world challenging problems.
2. Demonstrated experience shipping high-quality product features on schedule and instill a high level of engineering excellence culture (e.g., code reviews, documentation, unit and integration testing).
3. Proven track record of technically leading and mentoring engineering teams delivering high impact projects and inspiring junior engineers to grow.
4. Strong software engineering skills, supported by 5+ years of industry experience in one or more programming languages (e.g., Golang, Python, C++, Java) and eagerness to learn more.
5. Experience with large-scale distributed systems, data storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB) utilizing a micro services architecture
6. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents.

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field
2. Hands-on experience on development of HIPAA compliant systems.
3. Experience leading engineers to tackle ambitious problems

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.