Senior Software Engineer - Android - Payments Experience

About the Role

Being able to pay on Uber is a prerequisite for using the services we provide. Ensuring that users are able to understand how to pay and manage their payment options as efficiently and frictionlessly as possible is crucial for enabling us to provide the best-in-class user experience and for the success of our business.

The Payment Selection Capabilities team aims to pre-select and rank payment options for the given context and provides a way to make a quick and informed decision on how they want to pay and allow them to manage their payment options.

The Payment Selection Experience team aims to enable the user to make a quick and informed decision on how they want to pay and allow them to manage their payment options.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

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

As part of the Payment Selection team, you will have direct responsibility for vital systems and processes. You will take ownership of key features and initiatives in crafting and building high quality, scalable systems in making paying on our platform reliable and efficient. Your work will directly impact the lives of Uber’s users across the globe.

1. Contribute to the Android monorepo on core Uber flows enabling Payment experiences. Write quality code and documentation.
2. Take ownership of the critical engineering and business challenges, in collaboration with Product, Design and Data Science, and build the technical capabilities to support them.
3. Work closely with backend engineers and cross platform developers to build our users’ payment experience.
4. Define problems, propose solutions, and drive their execution with a high degree of autonomy.
5. Contribute to the development and execution of the strategic vision and roadmap for the Payment Selection team.
6. Apply and drive methodologies in code health, testing, and maintainability.
7. Good understanding of software experimentation philosophy in the earlier work with understanding of setting up A/B experiments for hypothesis testing.
8. Build instrumentation in the experiments, understand and mine insights and investigate these to help product with data driven decisions from experimentation.

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. 6+ years of full-time Android engineering experience with good understanding of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
2. Experience in object oriented programming, multithreading, networking, offline storage, memory management and source control management (git)
3. Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
4. Great understanding of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
5. Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
6. Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
7. A knack for benchmarking and optimization
8. Strong focus on high-quality mobile UI experiences. Experience with UI/UX paradigms to build sophisticated user experiences
9. Experience working with product and design teams
10. Experience analyzing a feature in production using analytics and experiments
11. Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Knowledgeable in Reactive programming (RxJava) and Kotlin
2. Comfortable working within the coding conventions of a large engineering organization and working in a large and sophisticated code base with many contributors

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.