Senior Software Engineer - Shared Rides
About The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our Shared Rides team at Uber. The team's mission is to provide a rideshare service at a substantially lower price point to a taxi or UberX via sharing the cost of the driver amongst multiple riders. You will play a crucial role in developing a product which can achieve this lower cost while providing Riders with a predictable and defect-free experience which also generates sustainable earnings for Drivers and Uber.
This role will focus on developing and optimizing the algorithms and systems that:
What You Will Do
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our Shared Rides team at Uber. The team's mission is to provide a rideshare service at a substantially lower price point to a taxi or UberX via sharing the cost of the driver amongst multiple riders. You will play a crucial role in developing a product which can achieve this lower cost while providing Riders with a predictable and defect-free experience which also generates sustainable earnings for Drivers and Uber.
This role will focus on developing and optimizing the algorithms and systems that:
- match supply (drivers) and demand (riders) in real-time
- predict future demand from historic data or encourage future demand via scheduling
- utilize future demand to provide optimizations over real-time matching
- set a price-point which is affordable for riders and provides sustainable earnings to drivers and Uber
- integrate with Uber's rider and driver mobile experiences to communicate the value proposition from Sharing, as well as realistically set expectations for and economy product.
What You Will Do
- Design, develop, and deploy systems/platform/algorithms to solve complex business problems and improve product performance
- Collaborate with applied/data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to understand requirements, define project goals, and deliver high-quality solutions
- Deliver and review technical design, code and documentation
- Drive ongoing efficiency and reliability improvements through design and automation: availability, performance, scaling, monitoring and capacity.
- Tackle sophisticated technical challenges involving multiple technology stacks
- Mentor and support your interns/fellow team members
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive best practices in data management, data quality, and service deployment
- Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and advancements in software engineering
- A Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
- 5+ years of experience in professional software development experience, developing and deploying systems in production environments
- Strong knowledge of backend development, distributed systems
- Knowledge of different compilation steps (and ability to fix) in languages such as Go, C, C++, or Java.
- Masters or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
- 3-5+ years of experience in in professional software development experience, developing and deploying systems in production environments
- Experience building a user facing product and working closely with Product Managers and Designers
- Strong motivation to grow and continuously develop new skills
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills including experience with data-driven decision making via A/B testing, switchbacks or other methods of experimentation
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology -
Industries
Internet Marketplace Platforms
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