Sr. Software Engineer - Backend

About the role

Job ID: 3448

Position Title: Sr. Software Engineer - Backend

Company/Employer: Uber Freight US LLC

Location: 433 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60607

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Architect and develop high quality software – efficient, maintainable, and scalable development of multiple applications and services.

- Adhere to safe coding practices from security, dependency, and risk mitigation perspectives.

- Identify the impacts on other modules and applications of the systems, including in the content of distributed systems.

- Assist project leadership in creating estimations of work for client projects, estimating required staffing resources, participating in interviews, and determining the project software development schedule.

- Work with version control complexities, including multiple concurrent branches and multi-branch merges.

- Perform unit and integration testing in a deployment environment to verify the delivered implementation meets the given requirements.

- Identify gaps in testing methodology and suggest alternative solutions or framework.

- Provide support for implementations to Business Analysts and Technical Support in resolving production issues and providing key contributions in resolution.

- Act as a specialist in complex matters to perform in-depth evaluation and analysis of variable factors.

- Lead large, complex projects end to end while collaborating with other engineers and cross-functional stakeholders from Product, Design, Operations, and Data Science.

- Mentor junior software engineers.

- Define architecture for cross team projects.

- Accountable for delivery of complex workstreams.

- Create and assign tasks to complete large-scale projects.

- Work independently to deliver projects with increased levels of complexity and ambiguity.

MINIMUM EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

- Requires a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a directly related field of study, plus the following experience:

1. 3 years of experience in Golang. 2. 3 years of experience in Go FX. 3. 3 years of experience in Thrift. 4. 3 years of experience in gRPC. 5. 3 years of experience in Bazel. 6. 3 years of experience in Message Queues. 7. 3 years of experience in Grafana. 8. 3 years of experience in ELK. 9. 3 years of experience in MySQL. 10. 3 years of experience in GORM. 11. 3 years of experience in Go-sqlmock. 12. 3 years of experience in Goland. 13. 3 years of experience in VS Code. 14. 3 years of experience in Shell Scripting. 15. 2 years of experience in Redis. 16. 2 years of experience in Phabricator. 17. 2 years of experience in Sourcegraph. 18. 2 years of experience in Zap logging framework. 19. 2 years of experience in a transportation or logistics environment. 20. 2 years of experience in the web development frameworks React or AngularJS. 21. 2 years of experience in M3 metrics. 22. 2 years of experience in Yarpc.