About the role and team
Uber has evolved from a ride-hailing service into an all-in-one platform, connecting users globally through various on-demand offerings across UberX and UberEats. To unite this ecosystem, we introduced Uber One—a paid membership program designed to elevate user experiences with priority service and exclusive perks. Under one unified membership, members unlock enhanced pricing, upgraded rides, dedicated customer support, premium partner benefits, and elevated service quality.
With more than 50 million global Uber One members driving over half of our total company revenue, the program is a critical engine for company-wide growth across our core offerings while shaping how users interact with our expanding ecosystem and new company big bets. Join us as we drive Uber’s growth and shape expansion into new verticals.
In this role on the Membership team, you will help shape the future of the program by architecting next-generation member experiences and benefits in close partnership with cross-functional teams. You will oversee our platform architecture and design highly reliable, scalable systems that power new initiatives across both UberEats and UberX. If you excel at tackling complex technical challenges, crafting impactful products, and driving key business outcomes, the Membership team is the perfect fit for you.
What you’ll do
- Identify new impactful opportunities to evolve the Uber One program across UberEats and UberX
- Collaborate with talented engineers, PMs, Data Science and Designers from across the company to design, build, and optimize products used by millions of members globally
- Architect robust, highly available, and scalable systems designed to resolve ambiguous technical challenges to serve millions of users. Align the org on complex tradeoffs between various different technical designs and solutions
- Drive technical strategy for platform evolution, microservices architecture, and API design to simplify future program needs
- Cultivate engineering culture and technical excellence to drive up engineering velocity and quality across the team
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years work experience in software engineering building large scale systems
- Bachelor's (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Strong hands-on technical skills, including proficiency in one or more programming languages (Go, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, C++) and code reviews.
- Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, system design, and architecture.
- Proven experience in owning critical and large-scale platforms, infra services. Proven experience in identifying architectural gaps and creating org-wide frameworks that improve developer velocity and reduce systemic technical debt.
- Proven ability to lead technical projects end-to-end through all lifecycle stages, from inception through design through global deployment and productionization.
- Expertise in defining standards for testing, monitoring, and alerting systems, while overseeing the execution of complex incident management at an organizational level.
- Demonstrated leadership in building relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to rally around a technical vision.
Preferred Qualifications
- Marketplace experience - Uber’s business model is marketplace heavy and prior experience creating 0 to 1 features and optimizing marketplaces is preferred. Experience in real-time marketplace platforms requiring high consistency and global reliability.
- Impact Mindset - (1) Ability to navigate complex org and company business needs (2) Ability to identify consumer needs through user research and data understand work (3) Bringing those together to build products and systems that bring value to our customers and deliver company impact
- Strong Cross Company Technical Collaboration - (1) Strong ability to collaborate and communicate technically with multiple teams across the company (2) Strong ability to deep dive into complex technical systems owned by other organizations (3) Create clean technical solutions that factor in complexities across multiple systems & ultimately solve for multiple team goals
For New York City, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $171,000 per year - USD $190,000 per year.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $171,000 per year - USD $190,000 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $171,000 per year - USD $190,000 per year.
For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.
About UsReady 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
- 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering building large-scale systems
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Proficiency in one or more of Go, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, or C++
- Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, system design, and software architecture
- Experience owning critical large-scale platforms or infrastructure services
- Experience identifying architectural gaps and creating organization-wide frameworks to improve developer velocity and reduce technical debt
- Ability to lead technical projects end-to-end from inception and design through global deployment and productionization
- Expertise defining standards for testing, monitoring, and alerting systems
- Experience overseeing complex incident management at an organizational level
- Ability to build relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners around a technical vision
- Marketplace experience, including building new features or optimizing real-time marketplace platforms
- Ability to navigate complex organizational and business needs and identify consumer needs through user research and data
- Strong cross-company technical collaboration and communication skills
Uber Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Uber and has not been reviewed or approved by Uber.
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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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