Sr Software Engineer - Backend, Delivery & Ads

About the Role

Collaborates with stakeholders within the team to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support user-facing products.

About the Team(We are hiring for multiple teams)

Our Delivery organization solves complex logistical and discovery challenges at a massive scale. Through this centralized pipeline, we are hiring top-tier backend talent and team-matching you based on your strengths across these core pillars:

Ads: The Uber Advertising team is building the next generation of display and video ads to help brands grow on Uber's marketplace. They own the critical ad supply and serving layers across the global marketplace, focusing on optimizing supply for existing formats and building engaging new ad experiences while balancing advertiser performance with an exceptional shopper experience. The team also includes the Ads Metrics & Attribution team, which builds high-throughput streaming infrastructure for the business's mission-critical "source of truth."

Search: The engine for discovery that drives over a third of our business. We're on a mission to evolve search from a simple query box into an adaptive, intuitive experience that understands user intent before they even finish typing.

Grocery: Fastest growing business vertical, delighting customers with next-hour delivery of household essentials from their favorite local stores. The Shopper Experience team is focused on building best-in-class products and technology to help shoppers fulfill grocery orders

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable software solutions
• Collaborate with product managers, cross-engineering teams, data scientists and other partners to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications
• Identify opportunities and lead of the entire development lifecycle end-to-end, from architecture design and coding to deployment
• Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and mentor junior engineers to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement
• Mentor and guide other engineers, providing technical leadership and encouraging a collaborative and growth-oriented team environment
• Build and maintain scalable backend services and infrastructure
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential impact on our software systems and recommending appropriate integrations or improvements

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field with at least 3 years of full-time Software Engineering work experience OR PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field with at least 1 year of full-time Software Engineering work experience
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, C++, Python, or Go
• 3 years of experience with backend development, building and delivering end-user products.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
• More than 5 years of full-time Software Engineering work experience
• Proven experience building highly available distributed systems (at Uber scale) and working across multiple backend services
• Experience working on scalable backend systems utilizing a microservices architecture
• High bar for quality as demonstrated by code reviews, documentation, unit and integration testing
• Experience with optimization techniques and algorithmic development
• Strong problem-solving skills, with expertise in algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis

For Canada-based roles: The base salary range for this role is CAD$173,000 per year - CAD$192,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it 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 accommodations@uber.com.

Client-provided location(s): Toronto, Canada

Job ID: Uber-153734

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-01-14T00:26:33