Senior Backend Architect – Scalable Microservices (Hybrid)

uberfreight; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan (US)

Dental and vision benefits

401k match

Uber Freight equity awards

Job summary

Uber Freight is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build scalable backend services and microservices that power our logistics platform. You will own architecture decisions and partner across product, operations, and engineering to deliver high-performance solutions.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability, and shape the long-term technical roadmap while focusing on performance, testing, and secure deployment pipelines in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience.
• Strong coding skills in one or more backend languages (Go, Java, Python, or C++).
• Experience building and scaling microservices and distributed systems integrated with APIs.
• Deep understanding of system performance, API design, and data modeling.
• Experience with backend testing practices (unit, integration, and end-to-end).

Responsibilities

• Build Scalable Backend Services: Design, develop, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency microservices and distributed systems using Go, Java, Python, or C++.
• Lead System Architecture: Drive architectural decisions, data models, and API contracts for resilient, fault-tolerant backend infrastructure.
• Champion Engineering Excellence: Advocate for best practices across automated backend testing, security, code maintainability, and deployment pipelines.
• Drive Scoping & Product Delivery: Partner closely with Product, Operations, and fellow engineering teams to define technical scope, manage trade-offs, and ship complex logistics features.
• Shape the Technical Roadmap: Proactively identify technical debt, bottlenecks, and architectural limits to guide the long-term scalability of the platform.
• Mentor & Foster Culture: Guide and mentor engineers across levels, conduct rigorous code and system design reviews, and promote operational ownership.
• Own Production Health & Reliability: Troubleshoot distributed system failures in production, monitor service health, and drive blameless post-mortems to improve availability.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

C++

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

MySQL

SQL Server

Oracle

Job description

Uber Freight is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build scalable backend services and microservices that power our logistics platform. You will own architecture decisions and partner across product, operations, and engineering to deliver high-performance solutions.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability, and shape the long-term technical roadmap while focusing on performance, testing, and secure deployment pipelines in a hybrid work environment.