Senior Staff Engineer- Backend

About the Role

Vehicles Engineering is a sub-unit of Earners Engineering with focus on building systems for vehicle owners/fleet partners. Vehicles Engineering works on providing vehicle access to earners via an efficient marketplace, provide fleet management and tooling to fleet partners, enable suppliers to serve riders better through data and intelligence and work on sustainability initiative promoting vehicular intelligence for EVs.

For this Sr Staff software engineering role in Vehicles team, we're looking for a passionate engineer to join a group which will work on Vehicles engineering and build products in data intelligence and fleet management workflows. You will :

• Be a Sr Staff Engineer in your team, leading critical projects and initiatives across multiple pods eventually
• Provide tech leadership in the team for backend development; create and review technical designs in the Vehicles/Earners space
• Collaborate with all stakeholders in engineering, product, operations and other involved orgs
• Help improve and establish good engineering practices and disciple in the team
• Interface and work with Principal engineers in cross team engagements

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

---- What the Candidate Will Do ----

• Work through development sprints to build products and features for Vehicles Eng.
• Provide tech leadership in the team for backend engineering (micro-services, messaging, storage etc); create and review technical designs in the Vehicles/Earners space
• Collaborate with all stakeholders in engineering, product, operations and other involved orgs
• Help improve and establish good engineering practices and disciple in the team
• Interface and work with Principal engineers in cross team engagements

---- Basic Qualifications ----

• 15+ years of overall experience with a track record as a senior/staff software engineer
• Strong experience in software design and architecture.
• Experience going through the full software cycle of requirements, design, coding/testing, rollout/deploy standard methodologies in delivering world class software and services.
• Experience in technical collaboration with other engineers and product managers
• Passion about your team's mission and the self-starting personality to make things happen.
• Proven development experience and proficiency in distributed systems and micro services.
• Proven programming skills in Go, Java, Python, or similar.
• Adept at communicating and collaborating effectively with others, promoting your ideas as well as being humble when you may be wrong
• Excited to learn from and guide others and are passionate about creating tools, products and providing support for other junior engineers

---- What the Candidate Will Do ----

• Experience in developing a large scale consumer internet platform/product
• Worked in an environment of collaboration across geographies
• Has mentored and guided engineers on technical implementations

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together.

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.

*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.