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As a Staff Mobile Engineer on the Autonomous Mobility & Delivery (AM&D) team, you will define and drive the technical strategy behind Uber’s next-generation rider, eater, and merchant experiences in an autonomous world. Our mission is to enable safe, informative, and magical customer experiences without human driver interaction, while scaling AV commercialization globally. This is an organization-level technical leadership role. You will operate across iOS and Android surfaces, shaping mobile architecture, influencing multi-team execution, and ensuring that our mobile platforms can support evolving autonomous and marketplace dynamics. You will partner deeply with backend, marketplace, AV integration, product, design, operations, and external partners to deliver cohesive, end-to-end experiences. Beyond shipping features, you will anticipate long-term architectural needs, identify systemic gaps, and design durable solutions that increase developer velocity, reduce technical debt, and improve reliability across teams. You will lead complex, multi-quarter initiatives from inception through production, ensuring strong execution discipline and operational excellence. This role is ideal for a mobile technical leader who thrives in high-ambiguity, zero-to-one environments and wants to shape both product direction and engineering standards at scale.
Job Responsibility:
Define and drive the long-term mobile technical strategy across iOS and Android for Autonomous Mobility & Delivery experiences
Lead large, cross-team initiatives from ideation through design, implementation, launch, and operational ownership
Architect scalable, modular, and maintainable mobile systems that support evolving autonomous and marketplace use cases
Anticipate future product and architectural needs, proactively addressing scalability, performance, and reliability challenges
Establish and promote mobile engineering best practices across architecture, testing, release processes, observability, and incident management
Partner closely with product, design, backend, marketplace, and operations teams to deliver cohesive, end-to-end customer experiences
Drive metrics-based execution, ensuring features are instrumented, measurable, and aligned with core business KPIs
Improve engineering velocity and quality by reducing technical debt and strengthening development workflows
Mentor senior engineers, elevate technical decision-making across teams, and raise the hiring bar through high-quality interviewing and feedback
Requirements:
5+ years of professional software engineering experience
5+ years of hands-on mobile development experience in iOS and/or Android
Proven track record leading cross-team, multi-quarter technical initiatives from concept through production
Demonstrated experience defining and evolving mobile architecture in large-scale, consumer-facing applications
Strong expertise in modern mobile architecture patterns, modularization strategies, state management, and performance optimization
Experience driving metrics-based product development with strong reliability and quality guardrails
Experience improving engineering standards across teams, including code quality, testing strategy, release processes, and operational excellence
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience partnering with product, design, backend, and operations stakeholders
Nice to have:
Experience building and scaling large consumer mobile platforms in transportation, mobility, logistics, or other real-time systems
Experience leading cross-platform architectural alignment across iOS and Android teams
Deep experience with experimentation frameworks, funnel optimization, and data-informed product iteration
Experience modernizing legacy mobile codebases while maintaining high product velocity
Experience designing mobile systems that integrate tightly with complex backend and marketplace platforms
Background working in fast-changing, zero-to-one product environments
Experience mentoring senior engineers and developing future technical leaders
Experience contributing to executive-level technical strategy discussions and org-wide engineering planning
What we offer:
Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program
May be offered an equity award & other types of comp
All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan