About the Team
Mobility Ads: Millions of people depend on Uber's web application to make ride reservations and get on-demand Uber rides. The Rider Core Team at Uber is redefining what it means to Uber and expanding our products beyond on-demand rides. In this role, you'll work with many distributed teams, ranging from designers, engineers, and data scientists, to provide market-defining products and trip planning experiences around Ads in mobility.
About the Role
- Uber's Ads Engineering Org is building the next generation of advertising solutions to power monetization for Uber's mobility business. The Mobility Ad Products team is focused on delivering innovative, scalable ad experiences that connect riders and drivers with relevant advertisers while maintaining a seamless user experience.
- As a Sr Software Engineer, you will own and lead medium-to-large scoped projects within mobility ads - from system design through production rollout. You will design scalable, low-latency systems, partner closely with Product and Data Science, and drive features from concept to global launch.
- In this role, you will have direct impact on Uber's monetization strategy, experimentation velocity, and platform quality, while influencing technical direction and mentoring other engineers.
- What the Candidate Will Do -
- Lead design and development of high-performance, scalable ad-serving systems for Uber's mobility ads.
- Own and optimize backend services and distributed systems handling millions of ad requests per second.
- Collaborate with Product, DS teams to implement new ad formats and monetization primitives from inception to delivery.
- Work with streaming and batch processing technologies (Kafka, Flink, Spark) to manage ad performance data.
- Mentor and support your fellow teammates.
- Drive ongoing efficiency and reliability improvements that improve the quality of the systems.
- Basic Qualifications -
- 5+ years of industry experience building and operating backend or distributed systems at scale.
- Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Java, Go, C++, Python) and experience building production-grade services.
- Proven experience designing and delivering scalable, reliable, and low-latency systems in a service-oriented or microservices architecture.
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design, with the ability to make sound architectural trade-offs.
- Hands-on experience with datastores (SQL and/or NoSQL), caching systems, and asynchronous processing.
- Experience owning features or systems end-to-end, from design and implementation to production rollout and on-call support.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners (Product, Data Science, Infra) to deliver business impact.
- Good problem-solving skills and ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
- Passion about your team's mission and the self-starting personality to make things happen
- Preferred Qualifications -
- Experience building and operating large-scale, low-latency backend systems.
- Prior exposure to ads, marketplace or auction-based platforms.
- Strong system design fundamentals, including scalability, reliability, and performance trade-offs.
- Experience with experimentation frameworks (A/B testing) and data-driven development.
Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction.
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