Sr Software Engineer, Merchant Intel 2
Summary
Senior software engineer on Uber Eats' Merchant Selection team, technically leading the systems that let local businesses sign up and succeed on the Uber Eats marketplace. The work is full-lifecycle service development with a strong frontend focus — React/TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL — plus on-call, architecture, and cross-functional roadmap ownership.
About the Team
The Merchant Selection Team enables SMBs and Enterprises to onboard and be successful on the Uber Eats marketplace. We build systems that power outbound sales, sign up & onboarding flows and guide merchants towards early lifecycle success.
About the Role
In this role as a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for technically leading a team that constructs the essential systems enabling local businesses to integrate with Uber Eats efficiently and realize immediate value. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners in Product, Design, Analytics, Operations, and ML to co-own the engineering strategy along with the EM, and own the architectural strategy. Shepherd the team towards prioritizing both the long-term scalability and reliability of the platform alongside rapid enhancements focused on the merchant experience.
What You’ll do:
- Work through the entire software engineering lifecycle, including partnering with product teams to define requirements to create new or evolve existing systems, designing, implementing, testing, launching and maintaining world-class high-availability and high-traffic services.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics and GTM teams to build and execute the roadmap, ensuring a stable, scalable platform while maintaining rapid delivery of merchant features.
- Oversee the prioritization and delivery of capabilities and architectural improvements to maximize user value and business impact.
- Ensure operational excellence across all areas, including support, on-call, deployments, and incident management.
- Champion and implement engineering best practices across the team
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years experience with common web technologies (HTML5, CSS, Javascript, TypeScript), Application Servers, Web Applications
- Proficiency in Javascript and experience developing UIs with JavaScript development frameworks, e.g. React, Angular, Vue, etc
- Experience with Node.js, React-Query, GraphQL, or other server-side Javascript technologies and tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to gather requirements and draft detailed design documents.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced expertise in modern frontend frameworks and web technologies, specifically React.
- Familiarity with principles of good user experience and experience with UX design tools, e.g. Figma
- Strong understanding of web performance, accessibility, responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility.
- Experience implementing complex projects with multiple dependencies
- Experience in multiple programming languages, e.g. Go, Java, etc
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.