Staff Software Engineer - iOS

About the Role

As a Staff Mobile Engineer on the Autonomous Mobility & Delivery (AM&D) team, you will define and drive the technical strategy behind Uber’s next-generation rider, eater, and merchant experiences in an autonomous world. Our mission is to enable safe, informative, and magical customer experiences without human driver interaction, while scaling AV commercialization globally.

This is an organization-level technical leadership role. You will operate across iOS and Android surfaces, shaping mobile architecture, influencing multi-team execution, and ensuring that our mobile platforms can support evolving autonomous and marketplace dynamics. You will partner deeply with backend, marketplace, AV integration, product, design, operations, and external partners to deliver cohesive, end-to-end experiences.

Beyond shipping features, you will anticipate long-term architectural needs, identify systemic gaps, and design durable solutions that increase developer velocity, reduce technical debt, and improve reliability across teams. You will lead complex, multi-quarter initiatives from inception through production, ensuring strong execution discipline and operational excellence.

This role is ideal for a mobile technical leader who thrives in high-ambiguity, zero-to-one environments and wants to shape both product direction and engineering standards at scale.

What You Will Do

1. Define and drive the long-term mobile technical strategy across iOS and Android for Autonomous Mobility & Delivery experiences
2. Lead large, cross-team initiatives from ideation through design, implementation, launch, and operational ownership
3. Architect scalable, modular, and maintainable mobile systems that support evolving autonomous and marketplace use cases
4. Anticipate future product and architectural needs, proactively addressing scalability, performance, and reliability challenges
5. Establish and promote mobile engineering best practices across architecture, testing, release processes, observability, and incident management
6. Partner closely with product, design, backend, marketplace, and operations teams to deliver cohesive, end-to-end customer experiences
7. Drive metrics-based execution, ensuring features are instrumented, measurable, and aligned with core business KPIs
8. Improve engineering velocity and quality by reducing technical debt and strengthening development workflows
9. Mentor senior engineers, elevate technical decision-making across teams, and raise the hiring bar through high-quality interviewing and feedback

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
2. 5+ years of hands-on mobile development experience in iOS and/or Android
3. Proven track record leading cross-team, multi-quarter technical initiatives from concept through production
4. Demonstrated experience defining and evolving mobile architecture in large-scale, consumer-facing applications
5. Strong expertise in modern mobile architecture patterns, modularization strategies, state management, and performance optimization
6. Experience driving metrics-based product development with strong reliability and quality guardrails
7. Experience improving engineering standards across teams, including code quality, testing strategy, release processes, and operational excellence
8. Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience partnering with product, design, backend, and operations stakeholders

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Experience building and scaling large consumer mobile platforms in transportation, mobility, logistics, or other real-time systems
2. Experience leading cross-platform architectural alignment across iOS and Android teams
3. Deep experience with experimentation frameworks, funnel optimization, and data-informed product iteration
4. Experience modernizing legacy mobile codebases while maintaining high product velocity
5. Experience designing mobile systems that integrate tightly with complex backend and marketplace platforms
6. Background working in fast-changing, zero-to-one product environments
7. Experience mentoring senior engineers and developing future technical leaders
8. Experience contributing to executive-level technical strategy discussions and org-wide engineering planning

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$232,000 per year - USD$258,000 per year.

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$232,000 per year - USD$258,000 per year.

For all US locations, 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. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

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.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.