Sr Software Engineer, Backend

**About the Team**:Uber is redefining the future of grocery & retail. A company that started by transporting people from place to place, now transports nearly anything a customer could want or need, on-demand. The Grocery Engineering Team is responsible for ensuring that as we move to transport more than just people & restaurant food, our platform evolves to provide a best-in-class experience for customers, earners and brands. Today this team is focused on grocery, but will continue to flex into a longer tail of categories in the future.**What you will do**:Partner with stakeholders and leads team efforts to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support user-facing products, downstream services, or infrastructure tools and platforms used across Uber.**Minimum qualifications**:- PhD or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field **OR **3-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, **WHICH INCLUDES **2-years total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:- Programming language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Python, or Go)Note the 2-years total of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education and full-time work experience, additional training, coursework, research, or similar (OR some combination of these). The years of specialized experience are not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated.**Technical skills **( Preferred)**:- Product engineering- Scalability engineering- Distributed systems