About the Role

Marketplace Logistics is the heart of Uber's delivery products. As the central brain of the company, we are the decision-makers enabling seamless movement from point A to point B for all Uber deliveries, from UberEats to new verticals like grocery, retail and package delivery. We handle all the logic from making the dispatch, which order to batch together, predicting how long a delivery might take, and aligning optimal pickup and delivery times for orders.

We work to identify the right trade offs between timeliness and costs, and build experiences to surface these trade offs. Uber's product suite is constantly growing, and new verticals like grocery, retail and packages are new paradigms which provide new frontiers to rethink how we dispatch, the routing algorithms powering the batching decisions, and the ways couriers earn on our platform.

We are looking for engineers to join our newly formed New Verticals Logistics team. Grocery, Retail and Package delivery are the fastest growing segments of the Uber portfolio, and each has unique needs for costs, timeliness and scheduling. This is a great opportunity to build out 0-1 new tech for these growing businesses, and adapt the existing uber delivery tech to transform the way products are delivered. The team addresses large-scale variations of the traveling salesperson problem in real-time. At any given time, we have tens of thousands of delivery requests and couriers looking for work in a city. Our jobs are to write software that identifies who is the best driver to complete a given request, how to batch trips or orders together that have similar routes, and when the best time is to make this decision. As you could imagine, solving this NP hard problem creates many fascinating problems around how to search the problem space, how to rapidly reach a near-optimal solution, and how to scale this process to operate within seconds.

Staff engineers at Uber are passionate and pragmatic technologists who are able to design scalable systems while delivering efficient code. They are not only collaborative role models but also approachable leaders with vision within a larger group. They are humble teachers, technically mentoring a team of hardworking engineers while also executing on delivering uniquely exciting projects.

What You Will Do

• Provide technical leadership to a passionate, experienced, and diverse engineering team

• Define the broader architecture for the New Verticals Logistics Team

• Solve NP-hard routing, matching, and scheduling problems

• Deliver and operate performant and reliable distributed systems consumed by multiple teams and clients

• Mentor junior members of the team in engineering craftsmanship and professional development

• Interact cross functionally with engineering, product and operations teams and stakeholders

• See the big picture and identify inefficiencies and opportunities for meaningful improvements across that Logistics Matching Platform and Uber as a whole

• Raise the bar on engineering best practices across your org to produce best in class of code, and effective documentation, testing, and monitoring

Basic Qualifications

• Passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience writing detailed technical documents

• Experience with Java, Go or C+ Preferred Qualifications

• Strong technical delivery, with 8+ years of experience experience building highly scalable software

• Experience building software engineering solutions for prediction and optimization problems

• Have a BS or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related field

• Experience working cross-functionally with Product Management, Data Science, and Business partners

• Experience working on highly complex problems. Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Passionate about consumer experiences, with a track record of building successful consumer features

• Ownership, taking a personal stake in the success of the product and the team

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$218,000 per year - USD$242,000 per year. You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdb_Y9Bv8-lWDMbpidF2GKXsxzNh11wUUVS7fM1znOfEJsVeA/viewform