Staff Software Engineer - Backend

About the Role

The Mobility Verticals org supports multiple verticals within Uber starting from well-established verticals like Airports, Intercity, and Micromobility to new bets like Uber Shuttle, Hourly, and Car Rentals which can be the next billion-dollar businesses leveraging one of the world's largest mobility platform. To succeed we are looking to disrupt the industry yet again through working on some of Uber's most complex problems and coming up with brand-new ways to use Uber!

As Vertical-run teams, we own holistic experiences and implementations throughout the Uber stack: Rider Experience, Driver Experience, and all of the complex marketplace mechanics in the middle! We work incredibly closely with the business and are especially focused on ensuring Uber's mobility business continues to grow rapidly through new product offerings and experiences!

If you're excited about moving fast, building brand new experiences to improve user experiences, and working with really smart people who are deeply passionate about the problems at hand, while working on tech that has a worldwide scale and customers, Rider Verticals is for you!

What you'll do:

1. Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of engineers to achieve project goals and deliverables.
2. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to achieve business goals.
3. Provide technical leadership and oversight to teams while staying hands-on. Work across multiple teams to identify problems which can be solved for increased efficiency.
4. Coach and mentor senior engineers to help with their learning and career growth.
5. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and knowledge sharing within the engineering team
6. Stay current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to drive innovation and efficiency.

What you'll need:

1. 10+ years of total experience
2. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
3. Strong expertise in high-level programming languages GoLang, Java etc
4. Strong experience in architecture design, high availability, and high-performance systems.
5. Ability to learn quickly on the go. We're looking for software engineers who thrive while learning new technologies and don't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. You should be able to easily adapt to meet the needs of our massive growth and rapidly evolving business environment.

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): Bangalore, India

Job ID: Uber-146886

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-08-28T00:39:59