About the role and team
Join the Maps Mobile Platform team to build the foundational geospatial backend and web architectures that power every Uber journey. Our team owns the critical Map Display SDKs and API layers used across all Uber applications, directly accelerating the velocity of hundreds of internal product engineers. In this Senior Full Stack role, you will architect highly reliable backend microservices in Go/Java and seamless web SDKs in TypeScript. Your work will shape our core mapping infrastructure, enabling highly scalable, performant, and reliable geospatial experiences for millions of global users daily.
What the Candidate Will Do
- Architect, build, and maintain highly scalable backend services (Go/Java) and robust web SDKs (TypeScript) that power Uber's mapping ecosystem.
- Design ergonomic, secure, and resilient APIs and platform libraries that enable hundreds of product engineers to ship geospatial features rapidly and safely.
- Lead complex technical initiatives spanning the full stack, taking ownership from system design and architecture to deployment and reliability monitoring.
- Optimize backend system throughput, reduce API latency, and ensure web SDK runtime performance for high-traffic, globally distributed services.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with iOS, Android, and product teams to bridge client and backend architectures, driving high-leverage platform abstractions.
- Elevate the team's engineering standards by leading architecture design reviews, establishing best practices, and writing comprehensive developer documentation.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and scaling large-scale applications across the full stack.
- Strong proficiency in backend development using Go or Java, with a solid understanding of distributed systems architecture and microservices.
- Proven expertise in modern web development using TypeScript, JavaScript, and associated web frameworks (e.g., React, Node.js).
- Deep understanding of core computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, large-scale system design, and API design principles.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing and maintaining high-leverage SDKs, platform frameworks, or developer tools serving hundreds of internal or external developers.
- Track record of driving large-scale architectural improvements, optimizing system latency, and ensuring 99.99%+ uptime for mission-critical services.
- Familiarity with geospatial technologies, mapping platforms (e.g., Mapbox, Google Maps APIs, WebGL), or handling large-scale spatial data sets.
- Experience with modern infrastructure, containerization, and observability tooling, such as Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, and distributed tracing.
- Demonstrated technical leadership abilities, with a proven history of successfully mentoring engineers and driving cross-org engineering initiatives.
Responsibilities
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $202,000 per year - USD $224,000 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $202,000 per year - USD $224,000 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.
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Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.
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.
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