• Sr Engineers at Uber leads complex engineering projects through all lifecycle stages, from idea inception to production. They define technical directions and make key tradeoff decisions that balance priorities.
• They build strategic relationships with stakeholders like product managers, designers, and operations representatives to align and deliver on organizational goals, both within their team and across different teams.
• Senior engineers embrace and promote Uber's cultural values. They are instrumental in defining and fostering the engineering and people culture within their teams.
• They actively recruit, onboard, and mentor engineers, consistently raising the hiring bar and enhancing interviewing skills to attract top talent.
• These engineers set high standards in code and design reviews, soliciting and providing feedback that optimizes both. They define, evangelize, and lead the adoption of best practices across teams.
• Senior engineers identify opportunities to improve performance, efficiency, and reduce technical debt both within their team and across multiple teams. They solve business problems using advanced software design principles and architecture suited to Uber's needs.

Basic Qualifications

• Candidates must demonstrate the ability to solve business problems with simple and elegant designs and architectures. They should be adept at using software design principles and methods and understand the limitations of existing software solutions to build effective architectures that integrate with existing solutions.
• Prospective engineers should have the ability to improve company and industry tools and best practices related to software architecture. They should identify and solve architectural gaps and reduce technical debt across teams.
• At the Senior level, candidates are expected to have successfully delivered multiple projects from inception to production readiness. They should be directly responsible for one or more cross-team projects.
• Solid foundations in computer science, including data structures, algorithms, and system design. Experience with multithreaded programming and memory management is crucial.