
Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack, Engagement Growth
Role summary
Uber Eats is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Early User Growth team, focusing on driving sustainable user growth and engagement across new categories like grocery and retail. This product-focused, full-stack role involves working closely with cross-functional teams to identify growth opportunities, define product requirements, and implement scalable technical designs. The engineer will be involved in the full development lifecycle, including implementation, experimentation, and release, requiring strong product judgment and the ability to deliver well-designed, maintainable solutions. The position emphasizes working in ambiguous problem spaces and making data-driven decisions through experimentation and analysis.
About the Role
Uber Eats has expanded beyond restaurants to support use cases like grocery, retail, and other emerging categories across global markets. The Early User Growth organization focuses on how new users discover, experience, and engage with Uber Eats, working across surfaces, and early journeys to drive sustainable, retentive growth.
We are recruiting for a product-focused full stack engineer who will help develop engaging, user-facing experiences in the Uber Eats app. In this role, you will work closely with product managers, designers, and partner teams to identify growth opportunities, define product requirements, and translate them into scalable technical designs.
You will be involved throughout the full development lifecycle, collaborating with other engineers to implement, experiment on, and release features to production. This role requires strong product judgment, comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces, and the ability to deliver well-designed, maintainable solutions that meaningfully impact user growth and engagement.
What the Candidate Will Do
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Design, Ops, Data Science, and engineers across multiple teams like Membership, Promotions & Messaging (to name a few) to own features from idea through launch.
- Design and build scalable, reliable systems across web services and distributed systems using sound engineering practices.
- Debug and resolve complex issues across multiple systems to ensure quality, stability, and performance.
- Participate in code reviews, contribute to engineering standards, and mentor junior engineers.
- Good understanding of software experimentation philosophy in the earlier work with an understanding of setting up A/B experiments for hypothesis testing.
- Build instrumentation in the experiments, understand and mine insights, and investigate these to help product with data-driven decisions from experimentation.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field AND 5-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES in one or more of the following areas:
- Programming language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Python, or Go) and web technologies.
- Building features at scale for consumer applications
- Running A/B tests
- Strong communication skills, experience working with stakeholders including product managers, design and user research
- Ability to learn new technologies and frameworks quickly
- Previous experience with at least one object oriented programming language
Previous experience designing APIs and collaborating with client engineers (mobile, web)
Preferred Qualifications
- Previously led multiple engineers, teams to develop consumer experiences across a range of platforms and use-cases
- Previous experience designing experiments, and developing measurement strategies
- Experience working on multiple platforms
- Prior experience developing software at a company with a two or three-sided marketplace
- Experience developing experience on Search, Feed
- Previous experience as a strong product engineer and have worked on distributed systems.
For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$202,000 per year - USD$224,000 per year. You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.
Sample Uber interview questions
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Design a truck tracking system that supports filtering by truck number and includes an interface
system designmedium - 2
Design Uber Eats
system designmedium - 3
Given a sorted array of integers (which may include negatives), return the squares of the numbers
codingmedium - 4
Find the minimum characters to insert to make a string a palindrome
codingmedium - 5
Given an array of integers and a number N, find the length of the longest contiguous subarray such
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