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Uber Eats is looking to improve its core customer experiences and the mobile and backend platforms that power the user experience. The Principal Engineer will provide technical leadership to mobile engineers and influence product strategy for the Uber Eats app, impacting millions of users daily.

Requirements

• Designing and building large engineering projects, including launching more than one generation of a Mobile application to millions of users.
• Experience with iOS or Android application development
• Familiarity with modern mobile frameworks

Responsibilities

• Consistently writes and documents high-quality code to solve strategically important problems; improves, role models, and promotes coding best practices; leads cross-organization development and adoption of key frameworks.
• Provide high quality code and design review feedback to other engineers; defines, evangelizes and leads the adoption of standards and best practices within the organization for code and design reviews.
• Evangelize technologies and their appropriate application across organizations.
• Cultivates a culture that values training and documentation within their organization such as technical writing for engineers (e.g. API, onboarding, operations runbooks), or users (e.g. user guides, training content, Engucation, Stack Overflow responses).
• Foresees architectural problems and/or opportunities that the organization will face a year out. Works with engineering leadership to address them before they become an issue.
• Design long-lasting engineering artifacts that reduces complexity, balances eng-wide migration cost, increases developer velocity, or improves efficiency and reliability across multiple organizations.
• Takes a critical area impacting multiple organizations and up-level the technical trajectory of that area directly and indirectly over several years.

Other

• Provide technical leadership to all mobile engineers at Uber and influence product strategy on the Uber Eats app.
• Work with talented people in product, design, data science, operations, and engineering to help build our next-generation consumer experience products.
• Creates an inclusive environment to promote open communication and leverages the ideas/opinions of others from diverse perspectives and encourages team members to recognize their value.
• Builds strategic relationships with internal stakeholders (e.g. engineers, product managers, designers, operations representatives) and external partners to deliver on organizational goals.
• Serves as a representative for the organization to the broader internal and external technical community.
• Demonstrates the ability to lead org- wide engineering projects through all lifecycle stages. This includes idea inception, stakeholder engagement, collaboration, requirements gathering, design, balancing priorities, implementation, productionization, and operations.
• Makes, embraces, and rallies org decisions that are good for Uber, even if that results in challenges for the individual or for the direct team or org.
• Inspire & rally engineers in their org to deliver on the technical vision, making the right tradeoffs with a bias for action
• Provides technical leadership and guidance to multiple teams to ensure effective delivery of project or organizational goals and objectives.
• PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field AND 8-years full-time Software Engineering work experience OR 12-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, WHICH INCLUDES 7-years total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.