Aarhus, Denmark • Backend • Distributed Systems • Go
Uber Eats is evolving. We’re moving beyond food to become a platform for delivering what people need, whether that’s groceries, pharmacy items, or retail goods. At the heart of this shift is INCA (Inventory & Catalog): the system that takes in massive inventories from merchants, enriches and normalizes that data, and serves it reliably across Uber’s global systems.
We’re looking for Senior Software Engineers in Aarhus who want to help shape this platform and take ownership of critical parts of how we store, update, and publish catalog and inventory information around the world for Uber Eats.
To understand the platform you’ll work on and the challenges we’re solving, start here:
Scaling Uber Eats for Retail & Grocery
https://www.uber.com/en-DK/blog/scaling-uber-eats-for-everything/
What You Will DoAt the Catalog & Inventory team, your work will directly shape how Uber’s delivery platform scales, adapts, and expands into new categories. The services you build will help:
- Serve everyone’s shopping needs, from small convenience stores to large supermarkets, with consistent, accurate catalog and inventory data.
- Make it easier for new merchants and business verticals to connect their inventory with our systems.
- Keep inventory and catalog data accurate and fresh in real time, even under heavy load.
- Support the reliability and extensibility of Uber’s delivery platform as we grow into new categories.
You will:
- Design and build backend services in Go that power catalog and inventory data throughout Uber’s marketplace.
- Build and maintain systems that handle real-time updates and high-volume ingestion workloads, think billions of updates per day.
- Work with cross-functional teams, including engineering, merchant integrations, search, fulfillment, and product, to make sure APIs and data models align with shared goals.
- Push for high-quality design, testing, observability, and performance in everything we build.
- Take ownership of services from design through production and help shape the technical direction of the team.
- Improve how we work, refining monitoring and on-call practices, documentation, and architectural decisions.
Required
- 6+ years building backend services at scale
- Experience coding with Go, C++, Java, or Python
- Experience with event-driven architecture
- Ability to turn business problems into effective technical designs
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and adapting to change
Nice to Have
- Experience with large catalog, search, or metadata platforms
- Experience with distributed systems
- Familiarity with distributed data stores, caches, and pub/sub systems
- Background in e-commerce, retail platforms, or content management systems
- Contributions to open-source projects or public technical discussions
- Work alongside exceptional engineering talent in Aarhus and across Uber’s global engineering teams
- Ownership over core platform services that run in production globally
- A collaborative engineering culture where design reviews, learning, and documentation are expected and valued
- Local engineering hub in Aarhus, Denmark with opportunities for global collaboration
- Space to grow technically and mentor others
- Flexible work policies and a healthy work/life balance
Ready to Ride?
This isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook — it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves — we'd love to hear from you.
You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.
Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity 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.
Skills Required
- 6+ years building backend services at scale
- Experience coding with Go, C++, Java, or Python
- Experience with event-driven architecture
- Ability to turn business problems into effective technical designs
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and adapting to change
- Experience with large catalog, search, or metadata platforms
- Experience with distributed systems
- Familiarity with distributed data stores, caches, and pub/sub systems
- Background in e-commerce, retail platforms, or content management systems
- Contributions to open-source projects or public technical discussions
Uber Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — Policies provide a minimum of fully paid parental leave for all parents and financial support for fertility, adoption, and surrogacy, with added credits to ease the transition. Programs extend to family medical leave and parenting support resources, indicating depth beyond baseline offerings.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive across many countries, with medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and mental health benefits, plus allowances where direct plans are not available. Wellness programs and reimbursements further reinforce access to care.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Monthly ride and meal credits, free office meals/snacks, fitness stipends, onsite gyms, and wellbeing reimbursements create meaningful everyday value. Home‑office stipends, travel medical coverage, and counseling support round out lifestyle-oriented perks.
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What We Do
We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything. Movement is what we do. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real-time. At the incredible speed of now.
Why Work With Us
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 the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together.
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