Software Engineer II -Backend

About the Role

The Risk team plays a crucial role in Uber mission to keep away users from malicious intent from our system while ensuring powerful, intuitive and frictionless delightful experiences for our millions of daily users (riders, eaters, drivers, couriers, restaurants). Our continued obsession for innovation is essential to enable Uber's phenomenal growth globally as we expand into new lines of business.

The team is full-stack and cross-functional. There will be significant, challenging problems in the Backend, Frontend, Data and ML engineering spaces, and the team will have embedded collaborators from Product Management, and Data Science.

As part of the team, you will have direct responsibility for vital systems and processes. You will take ownership of key features and initiatives in crafting and building high-quality, scalable systems. Your work will directly impact the lives of Uber's users and operations teams across the globe. - What You Will Do -

• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
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)

- What You Will Need -

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

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• Experience coding using general purpose programming language (eg. Java, Python, Go, Javascript, Fusion)

- Preferred Qualifications -

• Experience of building products in the early stages iterating fast & learning from customers to achieve the product market fit.
• Have worked across timezones with cross functional teams to collaborate and deliver on ambiguous projects.
• Have demonstrated ability to work in a fungible manner across tech stacks and programming languages across different domains including Backend, Frontend, Applied ML, etc.