Staff Frontend Engineer, Core Services Eng

About the Role

As a Staff Frontend Engineer on the Checkout Platform team, you'll design, build, and ship the systems that power the checkout experience of all Uber lines of business. We enable our users to pay with all payment methods globally. We're looking for innovative and talented engineers to extend our platform with new capabilities for all Uber customers. Join us to work on some of the most exciting challenges in tech, with projects aimed at creating the best checkout experience on the market.

What you will do

1. Extend Uber's Checkout Platform with new capabilities.

2. Enable these new capabilities for a wide range of Uber lines of business.

3. Work closely with backend engineers and cross-platform developers to build Checkout Platform and a seamless user experience.

4. Partner with Product, Partner Platform, Design, and Research teams to understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver these as a series of experiments.

5. Implement Web UI with the latest Web/Backend technologies.

6. Select the right architecture and design for ideas and experiments to quickly scale.

7. Strong understanding of software experimentation philosophy in the earlier work with an understanding of setting up A/B experiments for hypothesis testing.

8. Orchestrate rollouts that span across both mobile and backend systems.

Basic Qualifications

1. 7+ years hands on experience in developing consumer-facing web applications

2. Expertise in modern Web frameworks, such as React as well as vanilla JS, and RESTful APIs

3. Expertise with distributed systems at scale

4. Experience analysing a feature in production using analytics and experiments

5. Experience driving collaboration on projects and delivering impactful results

Preferred Qualifications

1. Excellent documentation, communication, and collaboration skills.

2. Strong understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

3. Knowledge of performance tuning, usability, and automation testing.

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 Sunnyvale, CA-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.