Grocery IC Sr. Staff Software Engineer: Backend
About the Role:
You will be joining the UberEats Order Platform Team. This team supports mainly 3 tracks - Keeping standards for existing platforms to run the business, supporting core products that need changes at the platform level, and writing the Next-Gen order platform that could spawn new delivery verticals quickly, is maintainable, and scalable.
About the Team:
The Order platform Team owns and maintains the complete dynamics of state transitions of Delivery/Eats Orders(created, released, scheduled, fulfilled, unfulfilled). Additionally, Core backend services for delivery including shopping cart, order and order-gateway are owned and maintained by this team which powers business flows across delivery org and which has scaled over years with currently supporting 5 million delivery orders per day
As a Backend Engineer in the Order Platform Team at Uber and being part of Grocery/Consumer Fulfillment org, you'll be working on code that's closest to the business and is capable of scaling millions of transactions over years to come. The work you do will impact live Delivery orders across the globe.
You will engage with stakeholders across teams to lead the development and maintenance of backend services and solutions to support user-facing products used across Uber Eats. You will mentor other backend engineers on the team while raising the overall engineering quality bar while ensuring the reliability of platforms/services.
Minimum qualifications:

• Ph.D. or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field AND 4-years full-time Software Engineering work experience
• OR 7-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 4-years total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Programming language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Python, or Go)

• Note the 4-years total of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education and full-time work experience, additional training, coursework, research, or similar (OR some combination of these). The years of specialized experience are not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated.

Technical skills:
Required:

• Distributed systems
• Experience with Backend System Design
• Experience writing Backend code

Preferred:

• Product engineering
• Scalability engineering

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For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is $243,000 per year - $270,000 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. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.