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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Uber
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Backend
- **Published:** July 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/B5C9817E3E5E4A41BF218669ED47B68F/job/

## About the Role

* Bachelor's in CS or equivalent with 8+ years of professional engineering background.
 * Strong leadership skills and technical expertise; ability to lead a platform team with deep domain knowledge and solve technical challenges through system design and problem-solving
 * Experience with high-scale, backend systems.

Preferred Qualifications

 * Proven ability to collaborate effectively across different functions and with diverse stakeholders.
 * Demonstrated leadership experience in maintaining reliability and extensibility to critical tier1 services.
 * Unwavering commitment to maintaining high standards for personal contributions, team members, and product outcomes.
 * 10+ years of relevant engineering experience.

## Description

In this role as a Staff Engineer, you will be responsible for technically leading a team that constructs the essential systems enabling local businesses to integrate with Uber Eats efficiently and realize immediate value. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners in Product, Design, Analytics, Operations, and ML to co-own the engineering strategy along with the EM, and own the architectural strategy. Shepherd the team towards prioritizing both the long-term scalability and reliability of the platform alongside rapid enhancements focused on the merchant experience.

What You'll do:

 * Design and architect systems and solutions that solve the business problems in a scalable and extensible way
 * Collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics and GTM teams to build and execute the roadmap, ensuring a stable, scalable platform while maintaining rapid delivery of merchant features.
 * Oversee the prioritization and delivery of capabilities and architectural improvements to maximize user value and business impact.
 * Ensure operational excellence across all areas, including support, on-call, deployments, and incident management.
 * Champion and implement engineering best practices across the team


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