About the Role

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The AM&D (Autonomous Mobility & Delivery) team owns the autonomous future of Uber’s Rides and Eats business. As we gradually but surely move towards this future, there are a full spectrum of engineering challenges that need to be tackled.

One of them being building the best in class user experience that is safe, informative, trustworthy yet magical.

In order to achieve this, at Uber AM&D, we touch almost all existing experience surfaces Uber provides : from the Uber Rider App, to the UberEats App, to the UberEats Merchant App.

Our mission is to make sure the entirety of Uber’s Mobility and Delivery experiences work for the autonomous future before it arrives at scale.

For the past year, the team has successfully integrated with some of the most successful Autonomous Vehicle OEMs, enabling successful Mobility and Delivery integrations.

From here, we are expecting significant business growth in the near future.

With the above said, now we are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to act as the lead backend engineer for the Experience charter.

What You'll Do

As the Experience Tech Lead for the Autonomous Mobility & Delivery team, you will be responsible for technical direction and be hands on with execution of Uber AM&D’s Experiences across Rider, Eater and Merchant surfaces.

You will work closely with cross functional leadership and partners to develop product and technical roadmap, and push these roadmaps to fruition quarter over quarter.

• Develop a strategic roadmap that helps Uber to elevate its experiences across the board to enable broader and faster Autonomous Vehicle adoption on Uber’s platform.
• Lead and guide end to end execution of multiple experience projects concurrently across multiple lines of businesses with deep knowledge and intuitions around experience tech and marketplace dynamics to drive key metrics from projects to projects.
• Ship new products and paradigms that strengthens Uber’s position as the Autonomous Vehicle rideshare provider of choice.
• Develop tech that future proofs Uber’s experience stack for Autonomous Vehicle use cases while making broader company-wide impact where applicable.

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

• 8 years of total software development experience
• Extensive experience with fast-pace metrics-driven product iterations with strong reliability guardrails
• Experience in crafting and developing large scale distributed systems and scalable backend services that powers fast-pace product iterations using a microservices architecture
• Extensive experience working in a fast changing, groundbreaking domain. Ability to drive concurrent large scale project execution.
• Background in transportation and / or autonomous vehicle industry
• Extensive experience building modular and scalable solutions that caters to a variety of clients and use cases.
• Extensive experience with product engineering applications of Operations Research and Machine Learning.
• Extensive experience navigating complex cross functional collaboration : Aside from day to day collaboration with product and design counterparts, extensive experience working with business, legal, operations, technical project management, etc to drive consensus.
• Extensive experience working closely with external partner engineering teams and their cross-functional partners.
• Any level of enterprise mobile engineering experience
• Any level management experience
• Any level of experience contributing to executive updates and org-wide presentations.

For Seattle, WA-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.

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.

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.

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Last updated : 2024-07-27