iOS Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

The Earners Life Cycle (ELC) team builds critical mobile experiences that help new earners successfully onboard, activate, and sustain engagement on the Uber platform. Our work spans onboarding flows, identity and compliance surfaces, earnings visibility, and early-lifecycle retention initiatives. In this role, you will directly influence how quickly and confidently millions of earners reach first value, driving measurable improvements in activation, conversion, and long-term success.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

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

1. Design, build, and own complex iOS features across onboarding, configuration, and early-lifecycle experiences with a strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and usability.
2. Lead technical execution for multi-quarter initiatives, partnering closely with Product, Design, Backend, Data, and cross-platform teams.
3. Drive architectural decisions, improve code health, and raise the bar on engineering quality, testing, and maintainability.
4. Mentor and provide technical leadership to other iOS engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
5. Use data, experimentation, and metrics to evaluate impact and iterate on solutions that improve earner success.

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. 6+ years of professional iOS development experience, including ownership of large-scale, consumer-facing mobile applications.
2. Expert proficiency in Swift and modern iOS frameworks (UIKit and/or SwiftUI), with strong understanding of iOS app architecture and lifecycle.
3. Proven experience designing and delivering complex user flows (e.g., onboarding, forms, stateful workflows, feature gating).
4. Strong system design skills for mobile: API integration, state management, offline handling, performance optimization, and scalability.
5. Experience collaborating in cross-functional environments with Product, Design, Backend, and Data partners.
6. Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects end-to-end, balancing product velocity with long-term technical health.
7. Strong code quality mindset, including unit/integration testing, observability, and iterative refactoring.
8. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs and influence decisions.

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., code generation, refactoring, testing, debugging, or design exploration) to accelerate development while maintaining high quality.
2. Experience with experimentation frameworks, A/B testing, and metrics-driven product iteration.
3. Familiarity with accessibility, localization, and internationalization in mobile apps.
4. Experience working on platforms with high scale, regulatory complexity, or trust-sensitive user journeys.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$202,000 per year - USD$224,000 per year.

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.