Senior Software Engineer, Communications @ Uber

• You ll build and work with real-time services and batch pipelines that track and measure the impact of communications sent to millions of Uber users daily (e.g., Rider, Earner, eater, etc.).
• Build systems that ll allow sending precise but accurate communications to the user resulting in higher user engagement metrics.
• Build systems that ll allow the ops team to track, and audit delivery metrics across various delivery channels
• Writes and documents code to solve complex problems that are not well-defined and span multiple related areas or projects.
• Writes tests to verify the functionality and stability of code; establishes monitoring and alerting systems to ensure code reliability; contributes to defining testing, monitoring, and alerting standards and leads team efforts to execute against them.
• Solicits and responds to code and design review feedback to optimize code and design; defines and encourages the adoption of standards and best practices within the team for code and design reviews.
• Partners with stakeholders to understand customer and/or business requirements.
• Translates requirements into effective design documents (e.g., ERDs, RFCs) to address clearly defined business or technical problems.
• Provides expertise to make trade-off decisions between short-term results and long-term goals.

---- Basic Qualifications ----

• 8+ years of experience in backend software engineering.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Sound understanding of computer architecture and CS fundamentals.
• Experience with one or more of the programming languages (Go and Java preferred), data stores (MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, etc) and distributed systems design with messaging queues (Kafka)
• Experience designing and working with systems at scale serving millions of users and high uptimes.
• Demonstrated experience of working with large data volumes
• Managed the design and implementation of complex cross team projects independently

---- What the Candidate Will Do ----

• Primary skills: Must have backend engineering background working on large scale systems
• Secondary skills:
• Some experience of data engineering in the past would be preferable (working with Hive, Pinot, Spark, setting up data pipelines etc) OR
• Some experience of web/mobile engineering (Android/iOS)
• Ideal candidate would be someone who has worked on the primary skills 80% of the time and secondary skills 20% of the time in the past.