As a Backend Engineer at Uber, you'll be working on code that's closest to the business. You will build user-facing products, handle and store thousands of payment transactions per second, and develop intelligent fraud prevention strategies that scale. From building maps that help move millions of people, to the messaging systems that let us interact with them - the work you do will impact live riders, eaters, drivers, and operations teams across the globe.
About the Role
Uber's Commerce Engineering group is responsible for maintaining and enhancing the infrastructure for orders and payments that enables all lines of businesses across Uber to conduct business. All commerce in and out of Uber flows through these mission-critical systems. In 2019 this meant processing over 6.9 billion trips with $65 billion in gross bookings. With strict 4 9's availability requirements, this is one of our largest scalable systems and the complex day-to-day interactions require careful coordination from engineers that have a deep sense of quality, security, and ingenuity.
The Order Platform team owns the lifecycle of all orders (ridesharing trips, freight loads, eats orders, etc.) from beginning to end. As a critical central platform, we straddle the line between infrastructure and product in such a way that we solve deep technical challenges, at scale, in problem domains that are specific to Uber's business.
What You'll Do
• As a backend engineer on the Order Platform, you'll be writing reliable and maintainable code that teams across the company rely on while collaborating extensively with those teams to anticipate the platform features required to enable them to launch new and innovative products.
Basic Qualifications
• At least two (2) years of software engineering experience• Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science, Physics, or Mathematics, or related field• Sound understanding of computer architecture and CS fundamentals.• Strong problem solving and coding skills• Experience with developing, debugging, and shipping software products on large code bases that span platforms and tools• Experience with Software Development processes such as design, planning, implementation, maintenance & documentation• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams• Passion for learning new technologies, domains, and challenging the status quo.• Grit, drive and a strong feeling of ownership coupled with collaboration.
Preferred Qualifications
• Expertise in one or more object oriented programming languages (e.g. Java, Golang, Python) and the eagerness to learn• Experience with production-quality services, deployment, monitoring, and reliability.• Experience with distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra)• Ability to decompose complex business problems into clean, extensible, performant services and systems• Self driven to identify opportunities to make things better and efficient.
Bonus
• Background with payment systems or financial technology• Experience with building high performance, scalable distributed systems using technologies like Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, or Zookeeper