Principal Backend Architect & Technical Leader

Uber; United States; On-site; USD 302,000 - 336,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity award

401(k) plan

Benefits

Job summary

Uber is seeking a Principal Engineer to shape the Earner Experience systems and algorithms powering drivers, couriers and shoppers. You will provide technical leadership to backend engineers, influence Uber app strategy, and collaborate with product and platform teams across the company.

This role demands strong communication, leadership and architectural chops, and offers high impact across multiple organizations with opportunities for bonuses and equity.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field AND 8-years full-time Software Engineering work experience OR 12-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 7-years total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Designing and building large engineering projects, including launching more than one generation of a Mobile application to millions of users.
• Experience with iOS or Android application development
• Familiarity with modern mobile frameworks

Responsibilities

• Consistently writes and documents high-quality code to solve strategically important problems; improves, role models, and promotes coding best practices; leads cross-organization development and adoption of key frameworks.
• Provide high quality code and design review feedback to other engineers; defines, evangelizes and leads the adoption of standards and best practices within the organization for code and design reviews.
• Evangelize technologies and their appropriate application across organizations.
• Cultivates a culture that values training and documentation within their organization such as technical writing for engineers (e.g. API, onboarding, operations runbooks), or users (e.g. user guides, training content, Engucation, Stack Overflow responses).
• Foresees architectural problems and/or opportunities that the organization will face a year out. Works with engineering leadership to address them before they become an issue.
• Make intelligent bets on high-impact innovations and uses good judgment to fail fast when necessary.
• Sets standard for architecture best practices across organizations.
• Design long-lasting engineering artifacts that reduces complexity, balances eng-wide migration cost, increases developer velocity, or improves efficiency and reliability across multiple organizations.
• Takes a critical area impacting multiple organizations and up-level the technical trajectory of that area directly and indirectly over several years.
• Creates an inclusive environment to promote open communication and leverages the ideas/opinions of others from diverse perspectives and encourages team members to recognize their value.
• Builds strategic relationships with internal stakeholders (e.g. engineers, product managers, designers, operations representatives) and external partners to deliver on organizational goals.
• Serves as a representative for the organization to the broader internal and external technical community.
• Demonstrates the ability to lead org- wide engineering projects through all lifecycle stages. This includes idea inception, stakeholder engagement, collaboration, requirements gathering, design, balancing priorities, implementation, productionization, and operations.
• Makes, embraces, and rallies org decisions that are good for Uber, even if that results in challenges for the individual or for the direct team or org.
• Inspire & rally engineers in their org to deliver on the technical vision, making the right tradeoffs with a bias for action
• Provides technical leadership and guidance to multiple teams to ensure effective delivery of project or organizational goals and objectives.

Skills

Leadership

System design

Backend development

Mobile experience

Communication

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

iOS development

Android development

Modern mobile frameworks

Job description

Uber is seeking a Principal Engineer to shape the Earner Experience systems and algorithms powering drivers, couriers and shoppers. You will provide technical leadership to backend engineers, influence Uber app strategy, and collaborate with product and platform teams across the company.

This role demands strong communication, leadership and architectural chops, and offers high impact across multiple organizations with opportunities for bonuses and equity.