About the Role:
The Inspire org at Uber Eats is looking for a seasoned Senior Staff Engineer to supercharge the next 5 years of Uber Eats strategy and make our marketplace a home for discovery and inspiration for our users. You will have the opportunity to play a large role in setting the product and technical direction of the org, and balancing hyper-fast 0-1 product development with extremely mature and high-traffic surfaces like our homefeed. You will partner with product engineers, ML and AI engineers, and cross-functional partners to create new immersive experiences that will help our customers discover new ways of interacting with our platform that are new for the industry.
What the Candidate Will Do:
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will:
Serve as a technical leader on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.
Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
Fully and completely understand system inter-dependencies and limitations.
Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members
Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience. You are a visionary leader, builder and an operator.
Balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
Basic Qualifications:
8+ years of software engineering experience
Strong product-focused engineer with past consumer product expertise
Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
Preferred Qualifications:
Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: large scale full stack development, building complex distributed systems, designing massive global networks.
Experience working with personalization and recommendation systems to craft rich, cohort-based experiences for users
Domain knowledge of marketplace systems
For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$257,000 per year - USD$285,500 per year. For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$257,000 per year - USD$285,500 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$257,000 per year - USD$285,500 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. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.
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- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdb_Y9Bv8-lWDMbpidF2GKXsxzNh11wUUVS7fM1znOfEJsVeA/viewform