Software Engineer II

Job Description

About the role

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join the Intelligence Platform team in Uber Delivery. Our team runs the backend systems that decide what customers see when they browse, search, and get recommendations across Uber Eats, Grocery, and Retail. You will build and own parts of these systems from design through production.

These systems sit on the critical path of every customer session, so every design decision we make has to account for complex constraints such as latency, data freshness, and multi-tenancy. Each request must return within a tight latency budget while it fans out across multiple data stores and services. The underlying data changes continuously, and those changes need to reach customers quickly. And many product teams share the same platform, so the system has to isolate their traffic, attribute every request to its caller, and stay available for all of them.

You will design and build against these constraints alongside senior and staff engineers, and work directly with the product teams that call our services. You will also share oncall for the systems you build, using metrics, logs, and traces to keep them fast and reliable.

About the Team

Uber Delivery includes our Uber Eats, Grocery, and Retail products, where we focus on getting goods from a merchant to a customer. The Intelligence Platform team owns the ingestion, storage, and serving layers behind Delivery's discovery, search, and personalization experiences, including the home feed, storefronts, carousels, and search results. 

Core competencies

• Build and maintain backend services that meet strict latency and availability targets at high request volumes.
• Own projects end to end, from design through testing, rollout, and monitoring.
• Write high-quality, testable code, and use metrics, logs, and traces to find and fix production issues.
• Share oncall for the team's services, including incident response and follow-up fixes.
• Review code and give constructive feedback to maintain code quality.
• Work with client teams and other engineers to collect requirements and create technical designs.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field, with 3+ years of full-time engineering experience.
• Experience in hands-on software development with thoughtfulness of scale, latency and distributed architecture.
• Highly efficient coding in Golang, Java or any similar languages.
• Solid experience working with relational databases, MySQL, PostgreSQL or similar, in high concurrency environments.

Preferred qualifications

• Solid systems design experience in high-availability, low-latency environments.
• Working experience with Flink, Spark, and/or Kafka.
• Experience with APIs over gRPC, Thrift, or REST.
• Exposure to search or retrieval systems, such as Lucene, Elasticsearch, or similar.
• A great teammate, willing to take ownership of their systems and think about operations, maintenance, and reliability.

At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. We take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world!

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 a curiosity, passion and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward, together!

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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.

Responsibilities

For Canada-based roles: The base salary range for this role is CAD $144,000 per year - CAD $160,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits.

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