UBER Engineering
San Francisco
Full Time
Sr. Software Engineer:  Supply-Engineering
Do you feel like the most exciting code is the code closest to the business? Do you thrive on being a generalist who’s able to understand infrastructure issues, develop backend services and design delightful web and mobile experience? Do you want to have a huge impact on people’s lives, helping them grow their business? Then join our supply engineering team!
Us
Our supply engineering team is responsible for prototyping, building and maintaining the partner-facing platform and business logic, supporting the livelihood and well-being of providers.
● We build internal tools to improve our operational efficiency, achieving high impact on the bottom line. Our team created an SMS Inbox that makes communicating with our partners a breeze.
● We maintain of partner-facing tools helping them manage their business, abstracting complex tax and regulatory frameworks. For instance, we built a payment architecture that handles large volumes of financial transactions.
You
● Intelligent. Highly adaptable. Rapid learner.
● Experience building web services. Deep knowledge of the web stack (from top to bottom).
● Experience building highly scalable services.
● Advanced knowledge or eagerness to learn Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS.
● Advanced knowledge or eagerness to learn PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka.
The role
As a member of our team, you’ll be confronted with a variety of technical challenges, including:
● Creating flexible implementations that are able to support extremely different regulatory environments, on a city and country basis.
● Leveraging technologies such as OCR to considerably streamline internal processes.
● Interfacing with different payment gateway providers to handle our partners’ payment.
● Designing automatic anomaly detection for key business metrics.
We're bringing Uber to every major city in the world.  We need brains and passion to make it happen and make it happen in style. Come join us!
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