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Uber Senior Software Engineer - Marketplace Objectives (Session Value) in San Francisco, California
About the Role
Uber's Marketplace organization is tasked with designing pricing and dispatch algorithms to improve marketplace efficiency. We try to balance the needs of riders and earners on our platform and are responsible for growing the business by improving our users' experiences while achieving the company's financial goals. We build optimization algorithms, ML models, and the scalable systems that serve them across hundreds of markets globally.
The Session Value team is a new effort within Marketplace to help create a central mechanism to score our decisions incorporating both short-term and long-term effects on our riders and earners. Put differently, the team is responsible for defining a central marketplace objective that will then be optimized for across all Marketplace systems and as such will help decide the direction for the entire marketplace.
The team is a mix of experienced engineers and scientists with diverse backgrounds (such as Economics, ML and Operations Research) focused on understanding complex marketplace dynamics and user behavior.
You will be helping to build a scalable system to evaluate hundreds of thousands of decisions per second to inform all optimization systems across Marketplace.
What the Candidate Will Do
In this role, you will be joining a high-priority effort to:
Build scalable real-time systems that allow all Marketplace optimization systems to score hundreds of thousands of decisions per second in real-time.
Build tools for offline evaluation and simulation for decision making and policy selection.
Support experimentation, iteration, and integration with Marketplace optimization systems.
Help define monitoring and observability standards.
Mentor junior engineers.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
Proficient in programming languages such as Java, Go, and Python
Experience building distributed systems
Experience working with cross-functional partners such as Product and ML/Applied Science
Experience mentoring and onboarding junior engineers
Preferred Qualifications
Prior experience with Java (streams, futures, DI frameworks such as Spring, etc...)
5+ years of industry experience in software development
Experience with datastore technologies such as Redis and Cassandra
Experience with Kafka
Experience implementing mathematical optimization programs through tools like Gurobi
Demonstrated ability to build and support business critical systems, design for high availability, handle on-call issues
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$185,000 per year - USD$205,500 per year. You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdb_Y9Bv8-lWDMbpidF2GKXsxzNh11wUUVS7fM1znOfEJsVeA/viewform