**About the Role** Uber is redefining the future of grocery & retail. A company that started by transporting people from place to place, now transports nearly anything a customer could want or need, on-demand. The Grocery Engineering Team is responsible for ensuring that as we move to transport more than just people & restaurant food, our platform evolves to provide a best-in-class experience for customers, earners and brands. Today this team is focused on grocery, but will continue to flex into a longer tail of categories in the future. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us develop and grow features and services that can power the global growth of Uber’s offering related to delivering groceries and retail. On this team, you’ll work closely with product, operations, and other engineering teams throughout the company. Also, we work closely with vendors and merchants that need to integrate their business with Uber. The main role of a Senior Backend Engineer is to partner with stakeholders and lead team efforts to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support user-facing products, downstream services and external integrations. **What the Candidate Will Do** As a member of this team, you will work to build out and expand our backend systems to help build features and drive key new product launches at Uber: - You will have a deep understanding of the problems our platform solves for. There is also the opportunity to work with many different parts of the company in helping drive projects that impact millions of customers at a global scale. - You will be responsible for the design, development and technical leadership of projects that may involve coordination with multiple teams. - Contribute in the full development cycle of backend services and features, including coding, testing, deployment and monitoring. - Participate in periodic on-call rotations and be available for critical issues. - Coaching junior team members. **Basic Qualifications** - 7+ years of total software development experience including at least 3 as a backend developer. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a similar field - Strong coding/debugging abilities with at least one coding language. We work with Go, Java and Python. - Experience leading small to medium size projects. - Experience working on scalable backend services using a microservices architecture **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience developing backend services with Go. - Java, C++, C#, Python knowledge - High bar for quality as demonstrated by code reviews, documentation, unit and integration testing - Demonstrable experience of working with large, scalable distributed systems We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world 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 [accommodations@uber.com](mailto:accommodations@uber.com).