Sr. Software Engineer - Backend

About the role

• Job ID: 3448
• Position Title: Sr. Software Engineer - Backend
• Company/Employer: Uber Freight US LLC
• Location: 433 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60607

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Architect and develop high quality software - efficient, maintainable, and scalable development of multiple applications and services.
• Adhere to safe coding practices from security, dependency, and risk mitigation perspectives.
• Identify the impacts on other modules and applications of the systems, including in the content of distributed systems.
• Assist project leadership in creating estimations of work for client projects, estimating required staffing resources, participating in interviews, and determining the project software development schedule.
• Work with version control complexities, including multiple concurrent branches and multi-branch merges.
• Perform unit and integration testing in a deployment environment to verify the delivered implementation meets the given requirements.
• Identify gaps in testing methodology and suggest alternative solutions or framework.
• Provide support for implementations to Business Analysts and Technical Support in resolving production issues and providing key contributions in resolution.
• Act as a specialist in complex matters to perform in-depth evaluation and analysis of variable factors.
• Lead large, complex projects end to end while collaborating with other engineers and cross-functional stakeholders from Product, Design, Operations, and Data Science.
• Mentor junior software engineers.
• Define architecture for cross team projects.
• Accountable for delivery of complex workstreams.
• Create and assign tasks to complete large-scale projects.
• Work independently to deliver projects with increased levels of complexity and ambiguity.

Minimum Education/experience Requirements

• Requires a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a directly related field of study, plus the following experience:
• 3 years of experience in Golang.
• 3 years of experience in Go FX.
• 3 years of experience in Thrift.
• 3 years of experience in gRPC.
• 3 years of experience in Bazel.
• 3 years of experience in Message Queues.
• 3 years of experience in Grafana.
• 3 years of experience in ELK.
• 3 years of experience in MySQL.
• 3 years of experience in GORM.
• 3 years of experience in Go-sqlmock.
• 3 years of experience in Goland.
• 3 years of experience in VS Code.
• 3 years of experience in Shell Scripting.
• 2 years of experience in Redis.
• 2 years of experience in Phabricator.
• 2 years of experience in Sourcegraph.
• 2 years of experience in Zap logging framework.
• 2 years of experience in a transportation or logistics environment.
• 2 years of experience in the web development frameworks React or AngularJS.
• 2 years of experience in M3 metrics.
• 2 years of experience in Yarpc.
• Experience may be gained concurrently.
• Hybrid position. Work from home available 2 days per week. Must reside within commuting distance of employer's Chicago, IL office. Various unanticipated worksites.

Salary

$184,993.00/year to $211,550.00.year.

Benefits & Compensation for U.S. Employees

Employees working more than 30 hours in the US at Uber Freight are eligible for benefits like a company sponsored health plan, dental and vision benefits, 401k match, financial and mental wellness benefits, parental leave, short- and long-term disability coverage, life insurance and more. US based employees may also be eligible for a performance or sales incentive bonus program, participation in Uber Freight equity awards, and other types of compensation depending upon the role.