About the Role

Uber Direct is one of Uber’s fastest-growing and most exciting marketplace bets, providing retailers and enterprise partners access to the same logistics and technical capabilities powering the Uber Eats product.

Within Direct, the Logistics team operates as a scrappy, high-velocity growth bet. We are fundamentally expanding Uber’s capabilities from small multi-order dispatch to owning the End-to-End (E2E) parcel journey. Partnering closely with our Staff Engineers, you will tackle complex, 0-to-1 technical challenges.

What You Will Do

1. Build 0-to-1 Logistics: Develop lightweight, native UI/backend MVPs for sortation, etc.
2. Leverage AI: Build and operate AI-driven software factories that translate product intent directly into production-ready code. Orchestrate agents and workflows (LLMs, CLIs) to parallelize development and automate repetitive engineering work.
3. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with Product, Ops, and Data teams to define and translate complex, ambiguous business problems into technical solutions.
4. Reliability & Mentorship: Build robust alerting and monitoring for your systems, and provide technical leadership and mentorship to mid-level and junior engineers on the team.

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
2. Proficiency in Golang, Java, or similar object-oriented languages.
3. Proven experience shipping high-quality, highly available products at massive scale.
4. Deep understanding of operations, maintenance, and system reliability.
5. Experience mentoring and guiding junior engineers to elevate team velocity.

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
2. Deep experience with microservice architecture, distributed systems, and domain-driven design.
3. Familiarity with event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, and Kafka.
4. Domain Expertise: Previous experience in logistics, supply chain, Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), or delivery routing is a massive plus.
5. AI Tooling: Experience designing prompting, context, and validation loops that ensure high-quality AI-generated output (tests, reviews, diffs) to continuously improve leverage across the stack.
6. Self-driven to identify opportunities to make things better, faster, and more efficient without waiting for top-down direction.

For Seattle, WA-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.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. 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.