Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

Uber Eats is the fastest growing food delivery platform in the world, just over the last year we have doubled our gross bookings Our team's work at Uber Eats directly impacts and continues to impact our communities. We help feed the Eater, and we help the merchants stay in business.

We are hiring engineers across multiple teams in the Uber-Delivery (formerly UberEats) India site.

Our mission is to to build reliable and scalable one-stop solutions for delivery system challenges, with focus on efficiency, optimisation and throughput.

Come join us in our India office to be part of a thriving culture, while solving challenging problems at scale. Be sure to check out the Uber Engineering Blog to learn more about the technologies we work on.

Eats is live in 6,000+ cities globally in 45 countries across 6 continents and we are growing every week.

Our quarterly gross book was approximately $8+B, with 135% YoY growth. That's the amount our merchant partners rely on us for every single quarter.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
- What the Candidate 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)

- Basic Qualifications -

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. React, GraphQL, Java, Python, Go, Javascript, Fusion)
• Heavy on front end and bring expertise to handle end to end front end project
• Good art handling backend tasks.

- Preferred Qualifications -

• 5+ years of industry experience
• Solid experience in Full Stack development using GoLang and Fusion/React.
• Writes and documents code to solve complex problems that are not well-defined and span multiple related areas or projects.
• Writes tests to verify the functionality and stability of code; establishes monitoring and alerting systems to ensure code reliability; contributes to defining testing, monitoring, and alerting standards and leads team efforts to execute against them.