Staff Software Engineer

Job description

About the role and team At Uber, mobile engineering operates at a scale where even the smallest technical decisions can impact millions of people. With thousands of engineers contributing to our ecosystem and continuous releases reaching users around the world, building reliable, performant, and scalable mobile experiences requires more than strong coding skills. We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Mobile who thrives on solving complex technical challenges, shaping architectural decisions, and influencing engineering practices across multiple teams.

What You'll Do

Solve engineering challenges at global scale: Design and evolve foundational mobile components, frameworks, and libraries that support applications used by millions of people. Balance performance, reliability, scalability, and developer productivity in a complex engineering ecosystem.

Drive architecture and technical strategy

Lead system design discussions, navigate complex technical trade-offs, and influence long-term architectural decisions across teams. Translate ambiguous challenges into scalable, sustainable technical solutions.

Stay hands-on with complex engineering problems

Write production-quality code, implement critical capabilities, investigate performance bottlenecks, and solve technically demanding problems.

Influence beyond

Partner with engineers, technical leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders to align architectural approaches, establish engineering standards, and drive initiatives that improve the broader mobile ecosystem.

Raise the engineering bar

Mentor experienced engineers, facilitate technical discussions, provide architectural guidance, and foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Build for engineering productivity at scale

Improve the tools, infrastructure, and development practices that enable multiple teams to ship mobile experiences efficiently, safely, and consistently.

Basic Qualifications

Software Engineering Experience: Extensive professional experience designing, building, and maintaining complex Android and/or iOS applications, with a track record of technical ownership and architectural contributions.

Mobile Technical Expertise

Deep knowledge of mobile architecture, concurrency and threading, application lifecycle, dependency management, performance optimization, and modular system design.

System Design & Scalability

Proven ability to design complex software systems, evaluate architectural trade-offs, and build solutions that support reliability, maintainability, and long-term growth.

Technical Leadership & Influence

Experience leading technical initiatives, influencing engineering decisions, mentoring other engineers, and collaborating across teams without relying on formal management authority.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.