About the Role
Join the Maps Mobile Platform team and build the foundational geospatial engine that powers every Uber journey. Our team owns and ships the Map Display SDK and the entire product-facing Maps API layer within Uber's iOS monorepo, driving every map experience across the Rider, Driver, and Eats apps. By building resilient abstractions and high-leverage tools used daily by hundreds of internal mobile engineers, your work will directly accelerate engineering velocity and shape the real-world experiences of millions of global users.
What You Will Do
- Design, develop, and maintain the Maps API layer and Map Display SDK that power all geospatial experiences across Uber’s iOS applications.
- Architect intuitive, ergonomic, and rock-solid APIs that enable hundreds of product engineers to ship map features safely and rapidly.
- Collaborate closely with feature teams across Rider, Driver, and Eats to uncover developer pain points and drive platform innovations.
- Write robust, maintainable Swift and Objective-C code with a relentless focus on stability, backwards compatibility, and test coverage.
- Diagnose, profile, and resolve complex platform-level regressions, memory leaks, and concurrency challenges.
- Participate in technical design discussions and code reviews to continually elevate engineering excellence across the mobile platform.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience developing and shipping iOS applications or frameworks.
- Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and system design.
- Proficiency in Swift and Objective-C, paired with a solid grasp of the iOS SDK, runtime, and memory management.
- Experience writing testable, production-ready code supported by comprehensive unit and integration test suites.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing, distributing, and maintaining reusable iOS SDKs, libraries, or APIs utilized by large developer organizations.
- Hands-on experience working in large-scale mobile monorepos and advanced build systems (e.g., Bazel, Buck).
- Familiarity with mobile mapping technologies (e.g., Mapbox, Apple MapKit, Google Maps SDK) or low-level graphics frameworks like Metal.
- Proven track record of profiling and optimizing mobile performance (CPU/GPU, frame drops, network I/O, and battery life) using Instruments.
- Strong developer empathy and communication skills, with a passion for writing comprehensive developer documentation and sample code.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $171,000 per year - USD $190,000 per year.
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
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience developing and shipping iOS applications or frameworks
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and system design
- Proficiency in Swift and Objective-C
- Solid understanding of the iOS SDK, runtime, and memory management
- Experience writing testable, production-ready code with comprehensive unit and integration test suites
- Experience designing, distributing, and maintaining reusable iOS SDKs, libraries, or APIs used by large developer organizations
- Experience with large-scale mobile monorepos and advanced build systems such as Bazel or Buck
- Familiarity with mobile mapping technologies such as Mapbox, Apple MapKit, or Google Maps SDK, or graphics frameworks such as Metal
- Experience profiling and optimizing mobile performance using Instruments
- Strong developer empathy and communication skills, including technical documentation and sample code
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.
Uber Insights
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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