Sr Software Engineer

Uber
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
about 2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

C (Programming Language) Java (Programming Language) C++ (Programming Language) Distributed Systems Python (Programming Language) Software Engineering System Availability Information Technology Web Technologies Programming Languages

Job description

Grocery is Uber’s fastest growing business line, delighting customers with next-hour delivery of household essentials from their favorite local stores. The Shopper Experience team is focused on building best-in-class products and technology to help shoppers fulfill grocery orders.

The Shopper Experience team is looking for a strong full-stack web engineer to help build the next generation of fulfillment tools to allow shoppers to quickly and accurately pick and pack items. As a full-stack engineer, you’ll be responsible for features from the inception to launch. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers across the tech stack and be expected to give input on how we design new experiences for our shoppers.

What the Candidate Will Do

  • Work through the entire software engineering lifecycle, including partnering with product teams to define requirements to create new or evolve existing systems, designing, implementing, testing, launching and maintaining world-class high-availability and high-traffic services.
  • Join on call rotation, driving continuous improvements on system availability, scalability, performance and efficiency.
  • Provide technical leadership, influence fellow engineers and role model solid engineering practices.
  • Collaborate with other infrastructure teams, production engineer team and product manager to drive adoption and best practices, and to design and implement high impact, cross-product features.

Requirements

  • Bachelor or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field AND 5-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES in one or more of the following areas:
  • Programming language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Python, or Go) and web technologies., * Product engineering
  • Fullstack Development
  • Distributed Systems

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