Software Engineer II - Marketplace Dynamics
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's Marketplace Engineering team creates the technology behind our ridesharing marketplace by connecting riders with drivers at the push of a button. Our solutions expand user access, deliver reliability, and provide more transportation choices to users across our global markets.
The Market Dynamics organization is at the heart of Uber technology, the horizontal platform that matches consumers to drivers in real time. Improvements in these systems increase revenue in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and decrease wasted time of drivers and users.
We are looking to expand the team with folks that are passionate about solving new problems, looking for impact, autonomy, a tech focused environment, and phenomenal team culture.
You will own and lead sophisticated and large scale systems. You will have experience being one of the tech leads of the CORE business of a consumer scale, technically excellent company.
What You'll Do
- Build realtime systems and create advanced technology to solve challenging optimization problems at Uber's scale
- Collaborate with a diverse cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, and product managers to design, build, and ship great features and experiences for our customers
- Lead the craftsmanship, reliability, and scalability of your solutions
- Bring a passion to stay on top of industry trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, and participate in internal and external technology communities
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field OR 1-year full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 1-year 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 year of specialized experience is not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated.
Technical skills:
Preferred:
- BS/BE degree in Computer Science and related field. Advanced degrees are preferred.
- Industry experience in one or more of the following areas: distributed systems, microservices
- Knowledge developing and debugging in GoLang / Java
- Experience with a scripting language such as Python.
At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. We take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world!
We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have a curiosity, passion and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward, together!
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.