About the Role
Marketplace Logistics is a central pillar to Uber’s core mobility and delivery products. As the central brain of the company, we are the decision-makers enabling seamless movement from point A to point B for all Uber orders, from UberEats to new verticals such as grocery. We handle all the logic from making the dispatch, predicting how long a delivery might take, and estimating optimal pickup times for orders.
At a high level the team leverage real-time marketplace dynamics to shape consumer behavior and optimize business trade-offs. We continuously aim to enhance the experience for all marketplace users, including consumers, merchants, and couriers. This includes building consumer facing products, optimizing our core algorithms and creating predictive models for order lifecycle events.
The team addresses large-scale variations of the traveling salesperson problem in real-time.At any given time, we have tens of thousands of delivery requests and couriers looking for work in a city. Our jobs are to write software that identifies who is the best driver to complete a given request, how to batch trips or orders together that have similar routes, and when the best time is to make this decision. As you could imagine, solving this NP hard problem creates many fascinating problems around how to search the problem space, how to rapidly reach a near-optimal solution, and how to scale this process to operate within seconds. To do this, our team uses a wide variety of innovative technologies.
---- What the You Will 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 testing and 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
- Mentor and guide other engineers, providing technical leadership and encouraging a collaborative and growth-oriented team environment
---- Basic Qualifications ----
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
- 9+ years of experience in software engineering
- Strong problem-solving skills, with expertise in algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis
- Proficiency with one of the following programming languages: Java, Go, C/C++, Python. Good scripting skills and ability to pick up new ones
- Passion for designing and building hyper-scale distributed systems
- Resilience, determination, ownership mindset, and a keen appetite for collaborative efforts
- Committed to crafting clear, maintainable, and reusable software
---- Preferred Qualifications ----
- Hands-on experience in productionizing machine learning or deep learning models in production
- Proficiency in building batch and real-time data pipelines
For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$252,000 per year - USD$280,000 per year.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$252,000 per year - USD$280,000 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.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber’s cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.
