Sr Software Engineer, Uber, CA, US

Job Description

About The Role

Uber's Commerce Engineering group is responsible for maintaining and enhancing the infrastructure for orders and payments that enables all lines of businesses across Uber to conduct business. All commerce in and out of Uber flows through these mission-critical systems. With strict 4 9's availability requirements, this is one of our largest scalable systems and the complex day-to-day interactions require careful coordination from engineers that have a deep sense of quality, security, and ingenuity.

The Money Platform team owns the lifecycle of money movement for all orders (ridesharing trips, freight loads, eats orders, etc.) from beginning to end. As a critical central platform, we straddle the line between infrastructure and product in such a way that we solve deep technical challenges, at scale, in problem domains that are specific to Uber's business.

As a backend engineer on the Money Platform, you'll be writing reliable and maintainable code that teams across the company rely on while collaborating extensively with those teams to anticipate the platform features required to enable them to launch new and innovative products.

---- What You Will Do ----

  • Work on payments platform as a backend engineer creating solutions catering to Uber's different lines of businesses
  • Work on creating data pipelines and data modeling to address business asks around reporting and ML model feature creation
  • Support and resolve customer issues by working closely with other teams

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master Degree in Computer Science with 8+ years of experience working on complex distributed systems

  • Sound understanding of computer architecture and CS fundamentals.
  • Strong problem solving and coding skills demonstrated by solid academic or research projects
  • Experience with Software Development processes such as design, planning, implementation, maintenance & documentation Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams
  • Passion for learning new technologies, domains, and challenging the status quo.
  • Grit, drive and a strong feeling of ownership coupled with collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science or affiliated faculty.
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