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Uber Eats has expanded beyond restaurants to support grocery, retail, and other emerging categories across global markets. The Early User Growth organization focuses on how new users discover, onboard, and engage with Uber Eats, driving sustainable and retentive growth across surfaces and early lifecycle journeys. We are hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to shape and evolve the core systems powering Growth initiatives. In this role, you will define backend architecture, shared services, and experimentation infrastructure used across multiple teams. You will partner closely with Product, Design, and Data Science to translate complex business opportunities into scalable, reliable technical solutions serving millions of users. This role requires strong architectural judgment, experience operating distributed systems at scale, and the ability to influence technical direction beyond a single team.
Job Responsibility:
Lead the design and evolution of core backend systems powering Early User Growth initiatives
Define and drive platform architecture, APIs, and shared services used across multiple teams
Partner with Product, Design, and Data Science to deliver scalable solutions that enable rapid experimentation
Own system reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability of Growth services
Influence technical direction through design reviews, mentorship, and engineering best practices
Improve experimentation velocity while maintaining high standards for operational excellence
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
7+ years of full-time Software Engineering experience
Proven experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production
Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and system design
Experience designing scalable APIs, data models, and backend workflows
Experience with microservice architectures
Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams
Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Java, Go, Python, or C++
Nice to have:
Experience building growth, onboarding, or experimentation systems
Experience designing A/B testing frameworks and measurement strategies
Experience building shared platform services used by multiple product teams
Background in consumer-facing applications at scale
Experience in a two- or three-sided marketplace
Experience working on Search, Feed, ranking, or personalization systems