About the Role

Sr Staff Engineers at Uber are expected to have a deep impact on a wide variety of technology decisions, spanning many projects across an entire org, and in many cases multiple orgs. We are looking for a technologist who brings experience in multiple domains to bear on building mobile applications at scale, and who ideally has in-depth knowledge of many mobile technologies, platforms, tools, frameworks and best practices.

About the Team

As a Mobile Sr Staff Engineer on the Rider Core Team, you’ll provide technical leadership to all mobile engineers at Uber and influence product strategy on our flagship Uber app, that directly impacts millions of lives each day.

This is a unique opportunity for a seasoned engineer and strong collaborator who can work with talented people in product, design, data science, operations, and engineering to help build our next-generation consumer experience products. It’s a very high impact role where you will interface with all major product & platform teams at Uber. The role requires strong communication, leadership and technical chops. You enjoy building solutions and guiding others equally passionately.

What You Will Do

• Provide technical leadership to a passionate, experienced, and diverse engineering team. Design and build the next major generations of the flagship Uber app.
• Develop an excellent understanding of Uber’s business strategy and goals, and the Rider org’s product and design goals. You will be one of our key leaders expected to identify and solve our highest impact, highly complex problems.
• See the big picture and identify inefficiencies and opportunities for meaningful improvements across the entire Rider org and Uber as a whole. Drive alignment on how to tackle these and lead the delivery of high leverage solutions for them to have the widest impact.
• Raise the bar to make Uber engineering truly best-in-class by improving best practices, producing exemplary code, documentation, automated tests and thorough and precise monitoring.
• Sr Staff level engineers at Uber are exceptional mentors. They are trusted advisors for both team members and leaders alike.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in successfully designing and building large engineering projects, including launching more than one generation of a Mobile application to millions of users.
• Experience with Android or iOS application development (Java, Kotlin, Swift, ObjectiveC).
• Familiarity with modern mobile frameworks (Rx, IoC/DI, analytics, A/B testing, etc) and tools (e.g. build systems like Bazel).

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong product focus and acumen.
• Experience creating and leading technical architecture for a large consumer focused app.
• Proven ability to develop other strong senior engineers into Staff engineers, operating and leading their own initiatives with org-wide scope and high impact.
• Experience designing and building server-side APIs and components that interface with mobile applications.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is $243,000 per year - $270,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is $243,000 per year - $270,000 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.

About the role:

Partners with stakeholders and leads team efforts to design, develop, and maintain complex user interfaces and features for mobile applications (Android).

About the Team:

The goal of the Pricing Experience team is to support Driver Pricing and Rider Incentives teams by delivering high qualityuser experiences powering both paid (Incentives, Promotions, Surge, etc.) and unpaid (Suggestions, ETR, Demand Heatmap, etc.) pricing levers. The team is responsible for both product-led initiatives as well as platforms that help build reusable and scalable user experiences for both Riders and Drivers.

Minimum qualifications:

• PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field OR 3-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 2-years total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:

  • Android development
  • Android java, or Android Kotlin

• Note the 2-years total of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education and full-time work experience, additional training, coursework, research, or similar (OR some combination of these).  The years of specialized experience are not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated.

Technical skills:

Preferred:

• Buck/Bazel
• Cross-platform (Android and iOS)

At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. We take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world!

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 a curiosity, passion and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together!

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.

Please refer to this role on our careers page for more details on your total compensation and benefits package. You can get there by clicking ‘apply’ if you’re not already on our careers site.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is $207,000 per year - $230,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is $207,000 per year - $230,000 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.

About the Role

You will be part of the team that builds Uber's navigation experience used by our driver partners worldwide. As a Sr. Android Engineer, you will build clear visual and spoken guidance systems to help drivers move people and goods as efficiently, and as safely, as possible.

---- What the Candidate Will Do --—

• Meaningfully evolve key navigation systems used by millions of drivers a day in the core trip flow with half a billion minutes of screen time per day
• Work alongside backend engineers to drive end-to-end experiences that involve visual, text, and voice guidance
• Partner closely with the sister teams in Marketplace, Display, Routing, ETA, Location and Sensors, Basemaps, Driver and Eats Courier to increase consistency and efficiency during the Pickup and Dropoff (PUDO) experience.
• Deep cross-functional collaborations with Product, Design, Data Science, and UXR teams

---- Basic Qualifications --—

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• Strong experience in either Kotlin and/or Java
• 2+ years of professional experience building in either mobile platform/sdk/dev tools, or mobile consumer-facing features
• MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field
• At least five (5) years of software engineering experience
• Experience with writing, releasing, and maintaining mobile code
• Experience analyzing a feature in production using analytics and experiments
• Experience efficiently collaborating on projects
• Experiences with mapping or navigation solutions
• Contributions to the Android community via open source

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is $174,000 per year - $193,500 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is $174,000 per year - $193,500 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.