Principal Engineer - Client and Product Foundations

Uber Uber · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · Engineering

Principal Engineer to shape the fundamental strategy & technology for how engineers build consumer-facing products within Uber Eats and beyond. Focus on presentation platform architecture, spanning backend, native mobile, and webviews, optimizing for low-latency server-driven UX and exploring Generative UI opportunities. Build foundational platforms and tools for rapid prototyping and scaling of customer-facing experiences.

What you'd actually do

  1. Architect and drive the long-term technical vision and roadmap for our presentation platform architecture
  2. Lead the design and implementation of novel systems that span backend, native mobile code and webviews in our unique, in-house hybrid-native architecture
  3. Challenge technical conventions while optimizing for low-latency server-driven UX while preserving native look & feel
  4. Explore bold bets such as A2UI and/or other Generative UI opportunities that can fundamentally reshape how consumer experiences are delivered
  5. Spearhead complex, cross-functional projects that require influencing and aligning multiple engineering organizations and their leadership

Skills

Required

  • client-side technologies (Web, iOS, and/or Android)
  • presentational backends
  • page & screen layout orchestration and composition
  • tech strategy
  • end to end delivery
  • partnering with senior leadership
  • technical and strategic oversight
  • distributed systems

Nice to have

  • Generative UI
  • A2UI

What the JD emphasized

  • 15+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • Experience owning tech strategy, end to end delivery, and partnering with senior leadership
  • Proven ability to provide technical and strategic oversight for a high-performing global team of hundreds of engineers
  • Subject matter expertise in client-side technologies (Web, iOS, and/or Android) and presentational backends (including page & screen layout orchestration and composition)