Staff Software Engineer

About The Role

Uber is a global company operating in over 70 countries, building innovative solutions that serve the world. The Internationalization (i18n) team is responsible for developing the foundational software and tools that enable Uber's internal localization (L10n) processes. This includes creating scalable solutions for efficient translation management, quality assurance, and seamless distribution of localized content across products and platforms.

In addition to supporting Uber's internal needs, the Internationalization team is expanding its vision by offering Localization-as-a-Service to external customers through Uber AI Solutions' knowledge work marketplace. This initiative represents one of Uber's most ambitious bets-to build one of the world's largest marketplaces for knowledge work, helping businesses complete online tasks of varying complexity with industry-leading quality, cost efficiency, and speed.

What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

• What the Candidate Will Do
• Product & Business Acumen: You understand requirements beyond the technical specs. Whether building APIs, internal tools, or customer-facing features, you prioritize details that deliver exceptional user experiences.
• Provide technical leadership to a passionate, experienced, and diverse engineering team. Design and build the next major generations of the internationalization experience for all Uber users.
• Develop an excellent understanding of Uber's business strategy and goals. As a key leader, you will be expected to identify and solve our highest-impact, most complex problems.
• See the big picture and identify inefficiencies and opportunities for significant improvements across the broader Uber organization. Drive alignment on how to address these and lead the delivery of high-leverage solutions with the widest impact.
• Raise the bar to make Uber engineering truly best-in-class by improving best practices and producing exemplary code, documentation, automated tests, and precise, comprehensive monitoring.
• Serve as an exceptional mentor, acting as a trusted advisor to both team members and leaders.
• Team Player: Collaborative mindset - you believe in candid feedback, collective problem-solving, and that the whole team is stronger than any individual.
• Ownership & Passion: You take full responsibility for your work, with strong emphasis on testing, monitoring, and documentation.
• Basic Qualifications
• 8+ years of experience designing and building large-scale backend engineering projects, including launching multiple generations of microservice applications.
• Curiosity, grit, a critical mindset, and a strong sense of responsibility.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership and lead cross-team initiatives.
• Understanding of fault-tolerant systems and multi-datacenter / multi-region / cloud architectures.
• Experience with database architectures at both a theoretical and practical level (e.g., RDBMS vs. NoSQL).
• Advanced knowledge of at least one programming language and of OOP patterns (e.g. Java, Go).
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts by writing system designs.
• Ability to drive team standards for code quality, performance, and efficiency.
• Willingness to embrace / use AI to boost productivity.
• Ability to drive engineering excellence and operational excellence initiatives within the team.
• Willingness to embrace Uber's cultural values.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

Proven ability to develop senior engineers into staff level engineers who can operate and lead initiatives with wider scope and high impact.

• Advanced understanding of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence is a plus.