
Sr Software Engineer
Uber Freight11 hours ago
Base Salary
$183k - $223k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead team-scoped initiatives from problem definition and technical design through implementation, rollout, and production operation.
- Build and operate dependable backend services, APIs, and data models while balancing correctness, reliability, performance, cost, and maintainability.
- Partner with Product, Operations, and data or ML engineers to define requirements and measurable outcomes.
- Use approved AI-assisted development tools for development, testing, debugging, and documentation while validating changes and protecting confidential information.
- Improve automated testing, observability, release safety, and incident prevention, and participate in production support.
- Lead design discussions, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and document technical decisions.
- Break ambiguous work into milestones, coordinate dependencies, and communicate risks and scope changes.
- Identify and evaluate automation opportunities using conventional software and AI approaches.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Five or more years of software engineering experience, including delivering and operating backend software in production.
- Strong programming skills in C#, Java, Go, or a comparable backend language.
- Experience with systems design, APIs, relational data modeling, and diagnosing failures across services.
- Ability to lead technical projects, make practical trade-offs, and collaborate with engineering and business partners.
- Ability to use AI-assisted engineering tools effectively and critically through professional work, independent projects, or a practical exercise.
- Preferred: experience with logistics, transportation, marketplaces, or operationally complex enterprise products.
- Preferred: production experience with AI engineering, Agentic RAG, RAG, Knowledge Graphs, and integrating AI or ML capabilities into production workflows.
- Preferred: experience with evaluation, monitoring, cost/performance management, human oversight, engineering-practice improvements, operational-work reduction, or mentoring other engineers.
Benefits
- Full-time hybrid work arrangement.
- U.S. employees working more than 30 hours may receive company-sponsored health, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) matching, financial and mental wellness benefits, parental leave, disability coverage, and life insurance.
- Eligible U.S. employees may receive performance or sales incentive bonuses, Uber Freight equity awards, and other role-dependent compensation.
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