Sr. Backend Engineer

Schedule: FT

Job Type: Hybrid

Salary Type: Salary
Req #770

About the Role

As a Sr. Backend Engineer at Uber Freight, you’re helping abstract and model a complex industry, and come up with innovative ways to integrate and automate the very steps that transport products every day.  You’ll be very close to business concerns, working alongside Product Managers, Designers, UXR and Data Scientists to bring algorithmic solutions to our users. At your disposal will be the tools that helped Uber grow to be a worldwide company, as well as new and upcoming tech from our computer, platform and machine learning teams. 

What the Candidate Will Do

Develop high quality software - readable, maintainable & efficient of multiple modules and applications

Adheres to safe coding practices from security, dependency, and risk mitigation perspectives; Identify the impacts on other modules and applications of the systems

Assist project leadership in creating estimations of work for client projects, estimating required staffing resources, participating in interviews, and determining the project software development schedule

Work with version control complexities including multiple concurrent branches, and multi-branch merges

Perform unit and integration testing in a deployment environment to verify the delivered implementation meets the given requirements

Identify gaps in testing methodology and suggest alternative solutions or framework

Provide support for implementations to Business Analysts and Technical Support in resolving production issues and providing key contributions in resolution

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or other related field

At least 5 years of software engineering experience 

Strong problem solving and coding skills

Experience with one or more Java, Go, C or C++

Experience with micro-service architecture and systems design

Experience developing highly scalable backend micro-services

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of data structure and algorithms and an ability to use them practically when implementing solutions

Experience shipping high quality product features on schedule

Experience handling complex problems at scale

Experience with one of the following databases: MySQL, Oracle

Experience with React 

About Uber Freight 

Uber Freight is a market-leading enterprise technology company powering intelligent logistics. With a suite of end-to-end logistics applications, managed services and an expansive carrier network, Uber Freight advances supply chains and moves the world’s goods. Today, the company manages over $20 billion of freight and one of the largest networks of carriers. It is backed by best-in-class investors and provides services for 1 in 3 Fortune 500 companies, including Del Monte Foods, Nestle, Anheuser-Busch InBev, and more. For more, visit www.uberfreight.com.

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