Senior Staff Engineer

About the Role

Fares refers to Uber’s platform for calculating who pays who what, across all Uber’s lines of businesses including mobility products (e.g., UberX, Transit, Black, Reserve, etc.), and now delivery products (e.g., Eats, Grocery, Direct). It processes over 100 billion pricing estimates a year (growing fast). Fares aims to deliver clear, trustworthy, and intelligent fares for all Uber customers and stakeholders, and consists of both consumer experiences (pre-trip and post-trip) as well as a large platform that works across Pricing, Matching, Maps, Fulfillment, Money, and Support to generate fares for a large number of use cases.

We are hiring engineers to lead multiple initiatives in the Fares Platform. Some of which include

1. Project Quark encompasses a complete redesign of the Fares Platform stack. Northstar for the project is to create a Fares platform that is resilient, LOB agnostic, easy to integrate and test, and supports rapid product innovation.
2. Inbounds: Enable various LOBs and partner teams to integrate with Fares platform to deliver a magical user experience.
3. Build out next gen observability tools for internal developers users of the Fares Platform through products and tools that make it a breeze to test, simulate, deploy and debug highly complex real time workflows at scale.

The Fares Platform is a critical part of booking, fulfillment, and post trip experiences. Consequently, the Engineer in Fares Platform will have an opportunity to grow strong partnerships and strategic influence across Uber. This role will suit an individual capable of evaluating customer needs and reducing highly complex multi-dimensional problems to simple solutions.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

---- What the Candidate Will Do ----

1. Code: Writes high-quality code (i.e., reliable, readable, efficient, testable), provides quality code reviews, and creates comprehensive tests and quality documentation using software engineering principles. This includes knowledge of data structures, algorithms, programming and associated programming languages and frameworks, and major phases/activities of the software research and development life cycle (e.g., requirements, design, build, experiment, test, debug, deploy, monitor). Identifies, reports, and solves technical problems according to standards and best practices.
2. Design: Uses software design principles and methods, knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of existing software solutions at Uber, and an understanding of own work's impact on other areas to reuse, extend, or, when needed, build effective architectures that are integrated with existing solutions and in alignment with needs and goals across areas. Learns and anticipates current and future design requirements and evaluates trade-off decisions to design systems that meet current needs and can be extended for future needs
3. Execute: Executes work with drive and appropriate sense of urgency to deliver technical and business impact. Plans, organizes, and manages tasks, resources, and relationships to accomplish work accurately and on time. Defines and diagnoses problems and determines an appropriate solution, recommendation, or decision while logically evaluating alternatives and factors (e.g., resources, costs, tradeoffs). Accepts responsibility and accounts for own actions and work.
4. Collaborate: Builds trusting and collaborative relationships and rapport with different types of people and teams. Respects the unique backgrounds and contributions of others. Recognizes conflict or disputes among people and situations, learns and works to understand different points of view. Resolves and aligns discrepancies across teams and organizations to accomplish team-, organization-, or Uberwide goals. Provides constructive feedback to others in a tactful and impactful manner.
5. Be efficient: Creates and promotes efficiency and speed within Uber technology, people, and teams by leveraging and extending existing solutions when possible, and by developing solutions that balance long-term productivity with short-term needs. Identifies and addresses inefficiencies and redundancy in day-to-day work. Improves and advocates for processes and technologies that enhance the efficiency and performance of software and systems
6. Create culture: Enhances the effective functioning of Uber by participating in and promoting activities and efforts that contribute to excellence and shape and evolve team-, organization-, and Uber-wide culture (e.g., reviewing diffs, refactoring code, participating in recruiting, hiring, and promotion activities, joining an ERG). Contributes to the broader community through participation in internally- and/or externally-focused engagements (e.g., tech talks, open source, conferences, team building)

---- Basic Qualifications ----

We are looking for experienced smart engineers who are passionate about the domain and the technology. Those who have a track record of ownership, execution quality and customer obsession.

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
2. Experience coding using general purpose programming language (eg. C/C++, Java, Python, Go, C#, or Javascript)
3. Strong experience in architecture design, high-availability, and high-performance systems.
4. Deep understanding of distributed systems.

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. You have knowledge of a backend stack (some examples include: Java, Go, Python, Redis, Kafka, Golang or similar).
2. Ability to learn quickly on the go. We're looking for software engineers who thrive while learning new technologies and don't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. You should be able to easily adapt to meet the needs of our massive growth and rapidly-evolving business environment.
3. Bias toward action. You believe that speed and quality aren't mutually exclusive. You've shown good judgment about shipping as fast as possible while ensuring your products and platforms are built in a sustainable, responsible way--and you're comfortable making mistakes, provided you learn from them.
4. Passion and energy. Because you love what you do, you bring infectious enthusiasm to all your endeavors. You always perform at your absolute best and see new challenges as an opportunity to contribute, make an impact, and grow.
5. Unquenchable thirst for growth. You're not just looking for the next interesting challenge, but looking to push yourself to keep pace in our hyper-growth environment.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - let’s move it forward, together.

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.

*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to [email protected].