staff software engineer

About The Role

Earner Access is a sub-unit of Earners Engineering with focus on building systems for Earners and Fleet Partners to discover, onboard and become compliant for various earning opportunities across Ubers portfolio of services. We are on a multi year roadmap to build the worlds largest Gig Platform. As part of this team you will have direct responsibility for critical systems and processes. You will take ownership of essential features. You will also design and build high quality, scalable systems making earner platforms reliable and efficient. Your work will directly impact the lives of millions of Ubers partners (drivers, couriers), riders, eaters, and operations teams across the globe.

What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

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• Lead the design and architecture of a high-performance streaming platform, prioritizing scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Collaborate with several cross-functional teams to define requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Develop and implement state-of-the-art streaming platform, enhancing quality, reliability and performance.
• Optimize existing streaming infrastructure for efficiency, latency, and freshness.
• Devise and implement solutions that seamlessly scale with the growing needs of our user base.
• Mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge exchange and continuous improvement
  
  

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• Experience coding using general purpose programming language (eg. C/C++, Java, Python, Go, C#)
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; ability to influence others within your team and outside your team.
  
  

• 8+ years of experience in hands-on software development with thoughtfulness of scale, latency and distributed architecture.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field, with 8+ years of full-time engineering experience.
• Highly efficient coding in Golang, Java or any similar languages.
• Comfortable dealing with system complexity
• Proven experience of shipping high-quality product features on schedule and with high velocity
• Great sense of ownership