Sr Software Engineer - Android

Overview

Uber Eats is the fastest growing food delivery platform in the world, just over the last year we have doubled our gross bookings! Our team's work at Uber Eats directly impacts and continues to impact our communities. We help feed the Eater, and we help the merchants stay in business.

We are hiring engineers across multiple teams in the Uber-Delivery (formerly UberEats) India site.

Our mission is to to build reliable and scalable one-stop solutions for delivery system challenges, with focus on efficiency, optimisation and throughput.

Come join us in our India office to be part of a thriving culture, while solving challenging problems at scale. Be sure to check out the Uber Engineering Blog to learn more about the technologies we work on.

Eats is live in 6,000+ cities globally in 45 countries across 6 continents and we are growing every week. Our quarterly gross book was approximately $8+B, with 135% YoY growth. That's the amount our merchant partners rely on us for every single quarter

What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

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

• As a software engineer, you'll engage in product and engineering jam sessions conceptualising features and mapping them into a technical design. You will build software that will ship to millions of users, or thousands of fellow engineers growing multiple apps that directly impact the ease of our users' lives.
• As a Mobile Engineer you'll work across both product and platform features in the flagship Uber app
• Design systems across the stack including close collaboration with backend engineers, designers, data scientists and product managers among others.
• Help teams with defining an architecture that would scale and also encourage best practices.
• Create frameworks and abstractions that are reliable, reusable and avoid surprising outcomes.
• Go to person to get clarity of problem statements and also can breakdown into meaningful tasks.
• Promote and demonstrate problem-specific expertise and execution excellence in delivering results
  
  

• Grit, drive and a deep feeling of ownership.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field (focus on ML/AI is a plus).
• 3+ years of experience in executing Android-based projects, providing technical guidance and training in Android development to teams of mobile engineers, and ensuring successful project completion.
• Deep expertise in Java or Kotlin, with a thorough understanding of the Android SDK, architecture components, and design patterns.
• Familiarity with mobile development tools such as Android Studio, and experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and third-party collaborators (e.g., Google, Apple).
  
  

• Knowledge of data structure and algorithms and an ability to use them practically when implementing user-facing solutions at scale
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams
• Experience collaborating on projects and working efficiently as part of a team.
• Familiarity with concepts of distributed systems.
• Experience analysing features in production using analytics and experiments
• Thriving in ambiguity and having a go-getter attitude