About the role:
Collaborates with stakeholders within the team to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support user-facing products, downstream services, or infrastructure tools and platforms used across Uber.
About the Team:
Uber is a global company that operates in many markets. It is essential for our products to feel local everywhere. You'll be responsible for building and supporting part of the complete backend infrastructure for internationalization(i18n) at Uber. Your work will impact 1000s of Uber engineers ( both mobile and backend) to help them localize their products. Millions of daily transactions and users of Uber platform will depend on the systems you will be developing. You will build/deploy and support services that deliver high quality translated content to the Uber apps and services using best/latest practices at Uber. You will be responsible for collaborating with external third party providers that Uber i18n is connected to. You will also be responsible to collaborate and help out the localization team and cater to their needs.

• You will make sure the new translations that are available get to the app and services in a matter of seconds.
• You will maintain a consistent experience for both developers and end users (e.g. plurals/genders, ICU / CLDR integrations, bidi, pseudo localization, i18n testing, best practices, etc.)
• Uber has a strong team of localization program managers and linguists, you will work with them to cater to their needs by adding features and building tooling.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field OR 1 year of full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 1-year of 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 1-year 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 is not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated.

Technical skills:
Preferred:

• Scalability engineering
• Distributed systems
• Knowledge of i18n/L10n is a huge plus
• python, Mysql, Nosql
• Architecture: Knowledge of data structures and an eye for architecture.
• Strong coding/debugging abilities: You have advanced knowledge of at least one programming language, and are happy to learn more. Our codebase is primarily in Golang.

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