Software Engineer Ii - Backend, Mobility & Business Platforms

About the Role:

Collaborates with stakeholders within the team to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support user-facing products.

About the Team (We are hiring for multiple teams)

Marketplace Matching is vital for Uber's core rides business, optimizing it through advanced algorithms, dynamic pricing, and machine learning to balance supply/demand, enhance the rider experience, and drive growth. Initiatives include UberX Priority, Wait & Save, strategic market differentiation, and global expansion. The Surge team ensures marketplace reliability by balancing supply/demand via dynamic pricing, while Rider Pricing & Incentives calculates real-time prices and uses promotions to grow demand. Both are crucial to Uber's success.

The Uber verticals team manages the largest segment within Uber's rides business. Our mission is to help airport travelers (airports, shared rides, HCV, Consumer trains, buses etc) understand what to expect, when to request a ride, where to go, and how to find their driver, no matter where they land in the world.

The Mobility trip pricing (rider pricing, incentive, surge) transforms business strategies into actionable, optimized plans for Ops to effectively manage incentives and pricing. This group implements the core optimization algorithms behind each planning product, develops how Ops interacts with these products, manages the API between planning and real-time systems and makes sure the planning products run reliably and produce high-quality results.

What You'll Do:* Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable software solutions

• Collaborate with product managers, cross-engineering teams, data scientists and other partners to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications
• Identify opportunities and lead of the entire development lifecycle end-to-end, from architecture design and coding to deployment
• Conduct thorough code reviews, offering constructive feedback to maintain high code quality and elevate coding standards
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential impact on our software systems and recommending appropriate integrations or improvements
• Participate in periodic on-call rotations and be available for critical issues

Basic Qualifications:* Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field with at least 1 year of full-time Software Engineering work experience OR PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field

• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, C++, Python, or Go
• 1 year of experience with backend development, building and delivering end-user products.

Preferred Qualifications:* Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field

• More than 3 years of full-time Software Engineering work experience
• Proven experience building highly available distributed systems (at Uber scale) and working across multiple backend services
• Experience working on scalable backend systems utilizing a microservices architecture
• High bar for quality as demonstrated by code reviews, documentation, unit and integration testing
• Experience with optimization techniques and algorithmic development Strong problem-solving skills, with expertise in algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 per year. For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 per year. For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$171,000 per year - USD$190,000 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. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.