Senior Software Engineer Backend

About the Role

Senior Software Engineer at Uber plays a critical role in enhancing the engineering experience and maintaining high standards across the team(s). They serve as an escalation point for incident management, helping direct on-call rotations and refining incident response processes. Additionally, Senior Engineers contribute significantly to code and design review processes by providing high-quality feedback and advocating for and defining best practices and standards. They are recognized as multipliers, identifying and advocating for improved performance, efficiency, and reduced technical debt in software, systems, and processes across teams.

Furthermore, these engineers lead efforts to promote training and documentation best practices within the team(s), including technical writing for engineers and user-oriented content. Their role involves collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders both internally and externally, raising the hiring bar, and consistently delivering on organizational goals through all lifecycle stages of engineering projects. This makes them pivotal in driving engineering excellence and influencing positive outcomes in Uber's ambitious projects.

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

1. Sr Engineers at Uber leads complex engineering projects through all lifecycle stages, from idea inception to production. They define technical directions and make key tradeoff decisions that balance priorities.
2. They build strategic relationships with stakeholders like product managers, designers, and operations representatives to align and deliver on organizational goals, both within their team and across different teams.
3. Senior engineers embrace and promote Uber's cultural values. They are instrumental in defining and fostering the engineering and people culture within their teams.
4. They actively recruit, onboard, and mentor engineers, consistently raising the hiring bar and enhancing interviewing skills to attract top talent.
5. These engineers set high standards in code and design reviews, soliciting and providing feedback that optimizes both. They define, evangelize, and lead the adoption of best practices across teams.
6. Senior engineers identify opportunities to improve performance, efficiency, and reduce technical debt both within their team and across multiple teams. They solve business problems using advanced software design principles and architecture suited to Uber's needs.
7. They represent the organisation and its engineering teams in broader internal and external technical communities, helping shape the technical landscape at Uber and beyond

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. Bachelors or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
2. 5+ years full-time Software Engineering work experience, in one or more of the following areas:
3. Designing end-to-end data solutions and architecture
4. Experience with low latency backend services in Java/Go/C++
5. Experience working with different data structures
6. Platform development, cross team collaboration is a plus
7. Candidates with experience in environments with similar scale and complexity to Uber are preferred, as this demonstrates the ability to handle Uber’s unique technical challenges.
8. Candidates who exhibit the ability to make intelligent bets on high-impact innovations and possess good judgment to fail fast when necessary will be highly valued.
9. Demonstrated ability to improve key metrics related to their previous projects or platforms significantly and consistently raising the hiring bar in interviews

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to solve business problems with simple and elegant designs and architectures. They should be adept at using software design principles and methods and understand the limitations of existing software solutions to build effective architectures that integrate with existing solutions.
2. Prospective engineers should have the ability to improve company and industry tools and best practices related to software architecture. They should identify and solve architectural gaps and reduce technical debt across teams.
3. At the Senior level, candidates are expected to have successfully delivered multiple projects from inception to production readiness. They should be directly responsible for one or more cross-team projects.
4. Solid foundations in computer science, including data structures, algorithms, and system design. Experience with multithreaded programming and memory management is crucial.
5. Strong capability in analyzing system logs and debugging complex software systems is essential.