Sr Software Engineer - Backend - Catalog Platform

About the Role

Whether it's a sandwich, a burrito, or groceries, the Uber Eats team builds technology to connect people with what they want, when and where they want it. The Eats Engineering team in Denmark is responsible for building the product catalog and inventory system that powers the Uber Eats experience and related verticals, such as groceries. This is one of the foundational components of the Eats architecture, as it interfaces with merchants, powers our local graph, and serves recommendations to our customers. The system is designed to be highly-available and highly-scalable to support our global operation.

What the Candidate Will Do

1. Design reliable solutions to solve business use cases in a highly distributed system.
2. Implement solutions in Go with a strong focus on clean, readable code with unit and integration test coverage - and run it in production.
3. Actively drive collaboration across multiple teams to create alignment and progress.
4. Take an active part in code change peer reviews to ensure quality and knowledge sharing across the team.
5. Contribute to engineering culture in terms of quality, monitoring, and on-call practices.
6. Own part of the team's charter and through that help set longer-term direction for the team.

Basic Qualifications

1. Customer-focused and experience working on a product team, shipping products to end-users
2. Significant experience building and operating critical high-scale systems
3. Good software engineering methodology: meaningful and deeply-rooted opinions about testing and code quality, ability to make sound quality/speed trade-offs
4. Outstanding technical skills in backend engineering

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience with e-commerce, grocery, or catalog
2. Experience in integration with third-party APIs and develop high-quality external APIs
3. Proficient with AB testing and experimentation.
4. Have proven track record working across an organization not just across teams.

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 [email protected].