Job Description
**About the Role**
Uber for Family was made for family organizers who want to share their payment profile with their loved ones to pay, manage the spending limits and conveniently track their status and ETA when they invite them to join your Family Profile.
Uber for Teens is a customized experience inside Uber for Family exclusive for teenagers. Teen accounts give the teenager the freedom to request their own rides, all under supervision of their guardians. Plus, with live safety features and real-time updates, the guardian can follow along from pickup to drop off.
Joining the team, you will collaborate with the other team members to design, develop, and maintain user interfaces and features for mobile applications (Android).
As a Software Engineer at Uber, you will be a member of Uber’s first Tech Center in Latin America! We are initially focused on sophisticated technologies to improve safety around the world, such as advanced telematics, machine learning, high scale distributed systems, real time data processing and mobile development, among others.
**What the Candidate Will Do**
- Partner with fellow engineers to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support user-facing products, downstream services, or infrastructure tools and platforms used across Uber, millions of Uber riders and drivers worldwide;
- Work on Uber's most complex applications by designing, implementing, and unit testing the mobile application code;
- Work with Product Managers and Designers to nail user experiences;
- Drive ongoing efficiency and reliability improvements through design and automation: availability, performance, scaling, monitoring and capacity;
- Lead upstream and downstream dependencies, collaborate with other engineering teams, capture requirements, evolve solutions and enable successful adoption;
- Create frameworks and abstractions that are reliable, reusable and avoid surprising outcomes;
- Go to person to get clarity of problem statements and also can break down into meaningful tasks;
- Promote and demonstrate problem-specific expertise and execution excellence in delivering results.
**Basic Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field **AND**/ **OR** +3-year total technical software engineering experience;
- Proficiency in Java and Kotlin, strong knowledge of both programming languages commonly used for Android development;
- Experience with Android SDK, strong knowledge of Android's core libraries, tools, and frameworks.
- Knowledge of Android UI/UX Design Principles, experience designing responsive and intuitive user interfaces;
- Advanced English language skills to work with other engineers and stakeholders from different regions around the world;
**Preferred Qualifications**
- Understanding of Android Architecture Components and other architecture components for building scalable and maintainable apps;
- Familiarity with Jetpack libraries to build modern Android apps;
- Expertise in using Kotlin Coroutines for managing background tasks and asynchronous code;
- Skills in profiling and optimizing apps for performance, including memory management, battery usage, and smooth UI rendering;
- In-depth understanding of Android Activity and Fragment lifecycle management, including handling configuration changes and memory leaks;
- Experience with Android testing frameworks and familiarity with debugging tools;
- Knowledge of performance tuning, usability and automation testing;
- Good understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together.
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.
\*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to [accommodations@uber.com](mailto:accommodations@uber.com).