About the Role
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in the ongoing development and enhancement of the Developer Platform, which provides developers across the organization with tools, frameworks, and environments to build reliable and scalable applications efficiently. Additionally, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to implement best practices and deliver top-tier software solutions.
What you will do
- Develop and maintain foundational frameworks & libraries.
- Design, build, and maintain sophisticated, scalable software frameworks within the Developer Platform.
- Mentor and coach other engineers
- Collaborate and communicate with a globally distributed team to help discover gaps in our frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure and help drive solutions.
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Basic Qualifications
- At least 7+ years of backend development experience with a strong preference for Go
- Have experience on maintaining platform frameworks
- Strong understanding of how IDL work (thrift and grpc)
- Strong collaboration as we often collaborate with stakeholders and platform teams to enhance our skills and achieve common goals.
- Previous Bazel experience
- Previous experience in using go/analysis framework
- Strong plus for the ability to work across the stack and familiarity with mobile platforms.
- Experience working with code generation
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 accommodations@uber.com.