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Sr Software Engineer - Backend, Grocery & Retail

Uber
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/24/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/1/2026
About The Role

Collaborates with stakeholders within the team to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support user-facing products.

About The Team (We Are Hiring For Multiple Teams)

Grocery & Retail is Uber's newest and fast growing business line, delighting customers with next-hour delivery of household essentials from their favorite local stores. The team is focused on building best-in-class products and technology to support merchants, consumers and couriers in shopping and fulfilling orders on the Uber platform. We solve challenging technical problems across consumer experiences, fulfillment orchestration, search, ranking, recommendations, catalog and merchant platforms to meet the needs of the growing business.

The Grocery and Retail team is looking for a Software Engineer to execute on the team's ambitious and fast-paced technology strategy. This is an important and visible role with a potential for significant impact on the fast growing grocery and retail business. We are looking for someone with deep knowledge and passion for software engineering, enjoys solving challenging technical and product problems, and can effectively collaborate with stakeholders.

What You'll Do

  • Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable software solutions
  • Collaborate with product managers, cross-engineering teams, data scientists and other partners to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications
  • Identify opportunities and lead of the entire development lifecycle end-to-end, from architecture design and coding to deployment
  • Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and mentor junior engineers to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement
  • Mentor and guide other engineers, providing technical leadership and encouraging a collaborative and growth-oriented team environment
  • Build and maintain scalable backend services and infrastructure
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential impact on our software systems and recommending appropriate integrations or improvements

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field with at least 3 years of full-time Software Engineering work experience OR PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field with at least 1 year of full-time Software Engineering work experience
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, C , Python, or Go
  • 3 years of experience with backend development, building and delivering end-user products.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
  • More than 5 years of full-time Software Engineering work experience
  • Proven experience building highly available distributed systems (at Uber scale) and working across multiple backend services
  • Experience working on scalable backend systems utilizing a microservices architecture
  • High bar for quality as demonstrated by code reviews, documentation, unit and integration testing
  • Experience with optimization techniques and algorithmic development
  • Strong problem-solving skills, with expertise in algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$202,000 per year - USD$224,000 per year. For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$202,000 per year - USD$224,000 per year. For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.

Salary : $202,000 - $224,000

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