Software Engineer 2 - Earner Growth Incentives

The Earner Growth Incentives team at Uber is seeking a Software Engineer 2 to join their dynamic and impactful team. This role is crucial in creating new incentives to help Uber grow its Earner base on the platform. The team is responsible for key initiatives such as Driver-to-Driver Referrals, Earnings Guarantees, and Do X Get Y incentives.

As Uber expands into different verticals and geographies, incentives play a vital role in increasing supply. The Earner Growth Incentives team is at the forefront of this effort. The team is full-stack and cross-functional, tackling significant challenges in Backend, Frontend, Data, and ML engineering spaces. You'll collaborate closely with Product Management, Design, and Data Science teams.

In this role, you'll have direct responsibility for vital systems and processes. You'll take ownership of key features and initiatives, crafting and building high-quality, scalable systems to make incentives reliable and efficient. Your work will directly impact the lives of Uber's partners (drivers, couriers, vehicles), riders, eaters, and operations teams across the globe.

As a Software Engineer 2, you'll:

• Engage in product and engineering jam sessions to conceptualize features and map them into technical designs
• Build software that will ship to millions of users or thousands of fellow engineers
• Work on Uber's most complex applications by designing, implementing, and unit testing backend application code
• Help define scalable architectures that encourage best practices
• Create reliable and reusable frameworks and abstractions
• Serve as a go-to person for problem statement clarity and task breakdown
• Promote and demonstrate problem-specific expertise and execution excellence

To excel in this role, you should have:

• 4+ years of experience coding with Go, Java, C++, or Python
• 4+ years of experience building, maintaining, and debugging production services/platforms
• 4+ years of experience implementing complex software architectures with multiple dependencies
• Experience analyzing, monitoring, and troubleshooting large-scale, high-traffic distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• The ability to write detailed technical documents

Preferred qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, proven experience shipping high-quality product features, and experience assisting engineers in solving production incidents.

Join Uber and be part of a team that's moving the world forward. The role offers a hybrid work model, with employees expected to spend at least half of their work time in the assigned office. Apply now and help shape the future of urban mobility!