Sr Software Engineer

About this role

About the Role

The Uber Eats Home Feed is the digital storefront for millions of users worldwide. As a Senior Engineer on this team, you will build a hyper-personalized experience that directly drives Uber's top-line growth. You won't just be ranking restaurants; you'll be architecting a high-concurrency engine that balances complex objectives across Ads, Grocery, Retail, and Food Delivery. This is a high-stakes, low-latency environment where your code determines how billions of dollars in gross bookings are distributed across diverse lines of business.


What the Candidate Will Do

• Design and develop robust backend services to support the evolving Uber Eats Feed, ensuring sub-second response times for global traffic.
• Partner with **Product, Data Science, and ML teams** to deliver innovative features that balance user personalization with business goals like Ad revenue and Grocery expansion.
• Take end-to-end ownership of large-scale features, from initial technical design and RFCs to implementation and post-launch optimization.
• Architect efficient APIs and storage strategies to handle the real-time data flows required for a dynamic, multi-vertical marketplace.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through rigorous code reviews, design critiques, and the promotion of engineering best practices.
• Contribute to the Feed team's technical strategy by identifying architectural bottlenecks and proposing long-term solutions.

Basic Qualifications

• Professional software development experience, with a proven track record of shipping production-grade backend services.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language, preferably Go or Java.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement distributed systems that handle high traffic and large-scale data sets.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience building Discov...