About the Role
As an Application Engineer in the Sales Automation Engineering team, you will be responsible for implementing high-quality, complex features on the CRM tech stack, while integrating with internal and external platforms to achieve desired results. You will serve as a technical leader on projects, defining and driving improvements to product and engineering quality.
This role is instrumental in solving complex and ambiguous business problems through simple and elegant system design, significantly impacting Uber's results in areas of user growth, revenue, and global expansion.
What the Candidate Will Do
- Consistently write and document high-quality code to solve complex problems that are not well-defined and span multiple related areas or projects.
- Lead the design, implementation, and shipment of reliable and well-tested features to our users, often spanning multiple teams.
- Evangelize and set the standard for technology design patterns and best practices within the project.
- Define and drive improvements to product and engineering quality (e.g., sustainability, maintainability, performance, reliability, etc.) throughout your team's software, working to simplify solutions wherever possible.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, architects, product owners, TPMs and other engineering teams to define project requirements, consolidated design, and execution plans for complex and ambiguous customer problems or business requirements.
- Serve as an escalation point for other engineers to troubleshoot and manage severe incidents in production; encourage the adoption of best practices in incident management within the team.
- Lead efforts to promote and adopt training and documentation best practices within your projects, such as technical writing for engineers and users.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation for the solutions, including design specifications, deployment guides, and operational support documentation.
- Participate in agile development processes, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Support QA efforts during implementations and rollouts of new system features.
Basic Qualifications
- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- At least 6+ years of professional experience in software development.
- Minimum of 2+ years of Salesforce application development experience.
- Proficient understanding of Salesforce platform, its capabilities and limitations.
- Proficient in Object oriented programming concepts.
- Experience working with C#, Java, Go, Python, etc.
- Experienced with SOAP API, REST API, and BULK API. Including API design, development, and management.
- Hands-on experience with Apex, Lightning, SOQL/SOSL.
- Experience working with Cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, etc.
- Effective communication skills to interact with engineers, technical teams, and stakeholders to gather requirements, and describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
- Excellent verbal, written, communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with cloud & Saas platforms, and hands-on experience with cloud-based integrations.
- Understanding of DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD pipelines.
- Enjoys solving complex business problems through innovative and technology-driven solutions.
For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$180,000 per year - USD$200,000 per year.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$180,000 per year - USD$200,000 per year.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$180,000 per year - USD$200,000 per year.
For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/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 fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
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.