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 independently build and evolve experiences.
- Establish engineering standards and technical 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 across 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 architecture for on-device and edge capabilities, deciding what should run on clients versus backend systems.
- Build frameworks, SDKs, developer tools, and reusable abstractions for product engineering teams.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to identify architectural constraints, technical bets, and investment priorities.
- Lead major architectural migrations and reduce systemic technical debt across the organization.
- Drive ambiguous, cross-organizational technical decisions and multiply impact through Staff+ engineers and technical leaders.
Requirements
- Extensive experience building and operating large-scale production applications on Android or iOS with deep mobile architecture expertise.
- Proven 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 experiences across the client-server boundary.
- 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 establishing standards and practices for testing, performance, observability, reliability, and incident management.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: expert-level proficiency in Kotlin, Java, Swift, or Objective-C.
- Preferred: experience with server-driven experiences, cross-platform frameworks, hybrid applications, dynamic delivery, experimentation, and progressive rollouts.
- Preferred: experience designing client-server protocols and contracts using GraphQL, gRPC, Protobuf, or equivalent API frameworks.
- Preferred: experience with large monorepositories, Bazel, and mobile developer-productivity infrastructure.
- Preferred: experience optimizing applications for constrained devices and networks, on-device machine learning, model deployment and optimization, mobile ML runtimes, hardware-accelerated inference, or mobile experiences powered by LLMs or agents.
- Preferred: ability to balance near-term delivery with durable investments and 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.