Responsibilities
- Define multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Rider experiences across mobile applications, client platforms, edge capabilities, and backend services.
- Set architectural direction for the Rider application and client platform so multiple teams can build and evolve experiences independently.
- Establish engineering standards and foundations for architecture, dependency management, build health, application size, startup and runtime performance, observability, testing, and release quality.
- Architect server-driven and cross-platform experience frameworks and make trade-offs among native, web-based, shared, and backend-driven implementations.
- Define client-server contracts covering API design, schema evolution, backward compatibility, rollout safety, experimentation, offline behavior, and failure recovery.
- Shape on-device and edge architectures while balancing latency, privacy, reliability, battery consumption, and cost.
- Build frameworks, SDKs, developer tools, and reusable abstractions for product engineering teams.
- Lead major architectural migrations, reduce systemic technical debt, and improve engineering velocity, reliability, performance, and product quality.
- Drive ambiguous cross-organizational technical decisions and influence technical leaders and stakeholders across the organization.
Requirements
- Extensive experience building and operating large-scale production applications on Android or iOS with deep mobile architecture expertise.
- Experience driving major mobile architecture decisions involving modularization, application performance, build systems, dependency management, application size, or release infrastructure.
- Experience designing APIs, data contracts, rollout mechanisms, and resilient end-to-end client-server experiences.
- Track record of building platforms, frameworks, or engineering standards adopted by multiple teams.
- Experience establishing multi-year technical direction and anticipating architectural risks.
- Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives from strategy and design through global production adoption.
- Ability to influence across organizational boundaries and align senior engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
- Expertise in testing, performance, observability, reliability, and incident-management standards and practices.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Expert-level proficiency in Kotlin, Java, Swift, or Objective-C and ability to work across the broader technology stack.
- Experience with server-driven experiences, cross-platform frameworks, hybrid applications, dynamic delivery, experimentation, and progressive rollouts.
- Experience designing client-server protocols and contracts using GraphQL, gRPC, Protobuf, or equivalent API frameworks.
- Experience with large monorepositories, Bazel, and mobile developer-productivity infrastructure.
- Preferred experience with constrained-device and network optimization, on-device machine learning, model deployment, mobile ML runtimes, hardware-accelerated inference, and mobile experiences powered by LLMs or agents.
- Experience representing an organization through technical forums, publications, conference talks, or open-source contributions.
About Uber
We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything and earn their way. Movement is what we power. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real time. At the incredible speed of now. The idea for Uber was born on a snowy night in Paris in 2008, and ever since then our DNA of reimagination and reinvention carries on. We’ve grown into a global platform powering flexible earnings and the movement of people and things in ever expanding ways. We’ve gone from connecting rides on 4 wheels to 2 wheels to 18-wheel freight deliveries. From takeout meals to daily essentials to prescription drugs to just about anything you need at any time and earning your way. From drivers with background checks to real-time verification, safety is a top priority every single day. At Uber, the pursuit of reimagination is never finished, never stops, and is always just beginning.