About the Role
The Engineer will join the Edge Platform team within the Business Platforms organization, a core platform team that underpins critical business-facing systems across Uber. The team owns and evolves foundational infrastructure including the API Gateway, Streaming Platform, media processing platforms and key mobile model components. This team is responsible for building highly reliable, scalable, and performant platform capabilities that enable product teams to move faster and operate at scale. This role is critical in shaping core platform architecture, ensuring consistency and resilience across services, and empowering downstream teams through robust, well-designed platform abstractions.
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
---- What the Candidate Will Do ----
- Design, build, and maintain high-quality Android applications to enhance the foundational components of the Uber Apps.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, data scientists, and other engineers.
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
- Participate in code reviews, troubleshooting, and debugging to uphold high engineering standards.
- Be actively involved in sprint planning sessions and project retrospectives to contribute to team development cycles and project completion.
---- Basic Qualifications ----
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in Android development, with expertise in Java or Kotlin and a deep understanding of the Android SDK, architecture components, and design patterns.
- Experience with mobile development tools like Android Studio and version control systems such as Git.
---- Preferred Qualifications ----
- Proven ability to manage complex projects and provide technical direction for mobile engineering initiatives.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for developing user-centric applications.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience in working with observability tools and frameworks.
- Any experience with enterprise mobile engineering.
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.