Full-Time

Principal Engineer

Biztech

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Uber

Uber

10,001+ employees

Global platform for ride-hailing and logistics

Automotive & Transportation
Consumer Goods

Compensation Overview

$284k - $315.5kAnnually

+ Bonus Program + Equity Award

Senior, Expert

Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

Seattle, WA, USA + 3 more

More locations: San Francisco, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Employees are expected to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office.

Category
Backend Engineering
Full-Stack Engineering
Software Engineering
Requirements
  • Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • A minimum of 10 years of professional experience, including 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and building large-scale engineering projects, including multiple generations of end-user applications serving millions of users
  • Experience in developing business technology applications, such as chatbots and personalized employee portals, with a focus on creating seamless and user-friendly experiences
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
  • Play the role of coach and mentor to SWEs in the team and uplevel design, architecture and coding practices
  • 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)
  • Hands-on leadership in building highly available, extensible, scalable, robust and resilient architectures
  • 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 use 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, and 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, productionisation, 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 trade-offs with a bias for action
  • Provides technical leadership and guidance to multiple teams to ensure effective delivery of project or organizational goals and objectives

Uber connects people and goods through its global platform, offering services in ride-hailing and logistics. Users can request rides or deliveries via the app, which matches them with drivers or delivery personnel. The company operates on a commission-based model, earning revenue from ride fares, delivery fees, and service charges. What sets Uber apart from its competitors is its extensive range of services, including freight and essential goods transportation, alongside traditional ride-hailing. Uber aims to enhance safety with measures like driver background checks and real-time verification, while continuously expanding its offerings to meet diverse customer needs.

Company Stage

IPO

Total Funding

$15.4B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2009

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

11%

1 year growth

20%

2 year growth

38%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Partnership with Safaricom increases user engagement in Kenya by providing free data access.
  • Focus on API security maintains trust and integrity in Uber's platform amid gig economy growth.
  • Collaboration with Toast expands Uber's delivery radius, benefiting restaurants and increasing market presence.

What critics are saying

  • FTC investigation into subscription policies may lead to regulatory penalties affecting Uber One revenue.
  • Geopolitical risks from Pony.ai partnership could impact cross-border technology collaborations.

What makes Uber unique

  • Uber's partnership with Toast offers commission-free delivery, enhancing its restaurant delivery market share.
  • Investment in Pony.ai positions Uber at the forefront of autonomous vehicle technology.
  • Uber Safari taps into experiential travel, offering unique wildlife tourism services in South Africa.

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