Software Engineer - Delivery Platform

Qishicpc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is hiring for the role of Senior Software Engineer in New York. The successful candidate will build scalable backend systems for Uber's global catalog, apply Generative AI, and tackle challenges in distributed architecture. Ideal candidates should have 5+ years of experience, proficiency in Golang or Java, experience with relational databases, and a focus on high-performance systems. This role offers an opportunity to lead full development cycles and improve coding standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-time engineering experience.
• Experience in hands-on software development focused on scale and latency.
• Proven solid systems design experience in high-availability environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable software solutions.
• Lead the development lifecycle from design to deployment.
• Conduct code reviews to maintain high coding standards.
• Communicate with teams to gather requirements and describe features.

Skills

Golang coding

Java coding

Distributed architecture

Relational databases

Flink

Spark

Kafka

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Cassandra

MongoDB

Job description

Uber Delivery (Eats, Grocery, Retail) is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build scalable backend systems that power feeds, storefronts, and discovery experiences. You’ll work with large-scale data systems and apply Generative AI to personalize and transform how customers find products in Uber’s growing global catalog.

Join us to tackle challenges in scalability, distributed systems, and AI at massive scale.

What the Candidate Will Do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and innovative software solutions.
• Identify opportunities and lead the entire development lifecycle end-to-end, from architecture design and coding to testing and deployment.
• Conduct thorough code reviews, offering constructive feedback to maintain high code quality and elevate coding standards.
• Help the team understand what is important and what problems to focus on, identify solutions to ambiguous problems and reason through tradeoffs.
• Communicate with internal clients, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field, with 5+ years of full-time engineering experience.
• Experience in hands‑on software development with a focus on scale, latency, and distributed architecture.
• Highly efficient coding in Golang, Java, or any similar languages.
• Solid experience working with relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar in high concurrency environments.
• Working experience with Flink, Spark, and/or Kafka.

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid systems design experience on high-availability and low-latency environments.
• Proven experience of shipping high‑quality internal platforms.
• Solid experience working with non‑relational databases such as Cassandra, MongoDB, or similar in high concurrency environments.
• A great teammate and owner—willing to take on ownership of the systems, and think about operations, maintenance, and reliability.
• Proven experience working with online food delivery systems and/or e‑commerce platforms is a plus.