{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"5f5958e4dbf47846865fc38b","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5f5958e4dbf47846865fc38b","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5f5958e4dbf47846865fc38b","title":"Sr Staff Engineer - Engineer","description":"About the role and team\n\nUber One serves as Uber's flagship membership program and stands as one of the company's core strategic growth engines. Boasting over 50 million members-a 55% surge year-over-year-the program drives 50% of Uber's total gross bookings. It plays a pivotal role in accelerating platform engagement, multi-product adoption, and sustained customer retention across Rides, Delivery, and Grocery.\n\nOperating as a robust growth flywheel, Uber One members spend 3x more than non-members and show a 35% higher retention rate across platforms. Furthermore, cross-platform users utilizing both Mobility and Delivery generate upwards of 3x the gross bookings compared to single-product users, with Uber One acting as the primary catalyst for this cross-platform engagement. Members enjoy substantial savings through ride discounts, waived delivery fees, surge protection, cashback, priority service, and exclusive perks with key partners, establishing a compelling value proposition that strengthens long-term customer loyalty.\n\nThe Uber One Membership Product Engineering team consists of 70+ engineers distributed across 7 pillars, dedicated to expanding membership coverage, deepening user interaction, and maximizing savings to boost lifetime value and retention. The team's initiatives directly influence Uber's top-line revenue, user retention trajectory, and global unit economics.\n\nIn this role as Tech Lead and Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will define the technical roadmap and architecture powering key growth initiatives across the organization. Operating at the nexus of platform design, product engineering, and cross-functional strategy, you will partner with Product, Data Science, Marketing, and business leaders to engineer high-scale systems driving acquisition, engagement, benefits delivery, and retention for millions of global members.\n\nWhat you'll do\nSet technical direction across various engineering pillars encompassing membership growth, retention, benefits, membership experimentation, and platform infrastructure - ensuring architectural coherence and high engineering standards across a 70+ engineer organization.\nDesign and evolve large-scale distributed systems that power membership lifecycle management, benefits eligibility and fulfillment, savings computation, and real-time personalization across Uber's Rides, Delivery, and Grocery surfaces.\nLead complex, multi-team technical initiatives with significant cross-organizational dependencies - coordinating with Eats, Rides, Grocery, Payments, Pricing, Fares, Fulfillment Engineering teams to deliver integrated membership experiences.\nDrive data-informed product engineering by building instrumentation, establishing OKRs, and leveraging experimentation (A/B testing, holdout analysis) to optimize membership coverage, conversion, engagement, and savings delivery.\nArchitect for scale and reliability - designing systems that handle millions of real-time membership eligibility checks, benefits applications, and personalized offer computations with low latency and high availability.\nMentor and elevate engineers across the organization, including Senior and Staff-level ICs, raising the technical bar and fostering a culture of engineering excellence, code quality, and operational rigor.\nShape technical strategy in partnership with Product Management, Data Science, and business leadership - translating membership growth and engagement objectives into engineering roadmaps and architectural decisions.\nDeliver and review technical designs, code, and documentation to a high standard, championing best practices in service architecture, data management, and deployment.\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.\n10+ years of professional software development experience, building and operating systems in production environments.\nStrong expertise in backend development, distributed systems, and system design for large-scale, low-latency applications.\nDemonstrated ability to lead complex, multi-team technical initiatives with significant cross-organizational dependencies and design complexity.\nStrong cross-functional collaboration skills with Product, Data Science, Marketing, and business stakeholders.\nProven ability to mentor and elevate other engineers, including Senior and Staff-level ICs.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience building and scaling membership, subscription, or loyalty platform systems.\nProven track record of setting technical direction for a large engineering organization (50+ engineers across multiple teams).\nExperience with full-stack product engineering - building consumer-facing features that span backend services, APIs, and client integration points.\nDeep experience with experimentation frameworks, A/B testing at scale, and data-driven product development.\nBackground in pricing, personalization, or recommendation systems.\nExperience with multi-sided marketplace dynamics and understanding of how membership programs drive platform network effects.\nProficiency in languages such as Go, Java, or Python, with strong foundations in performance optimization and debugging across complex stacks.\nExperience designing systems that span multiple business verticals (e.g., Rides, Delivery, Grocery) with shared platform layers.\nTrack record of driving both technical innovation and raising organizational engineering standards across a large, distributed team.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with comfort navigating ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces.\nFamiliarity with agentic AI patterns and LLM-powered systems, with a track record of driving AI adoption across engineering teams to accelerate development velocity and product innovation\n\nFor San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year.\n\nYou will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.\n\nReady to Ride?\n\nThis isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook - it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves - we'd love to hear from you.\n\nYou may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.\n\nOffices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.\n\nUber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity 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. 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Boasting over 50 million members-a 55% surge year-over-year-the program drives 50% of Uber's total gross bookings. It plays a pivotal role in accelerating platform engagement, multi-product adoption, and sustained customer retention across Rides, Delivery, and Grocery.\n\nOperating as a robust growth flywheel, Uber One members spend 3x more than non-members and show a 35% higher retention rate across platforms. Furthermore, cross-platform users utilizing both Mobility and Delivery generate upwards of 3x the gross bookings compared to single-product users, with Uber One acting as the primary catalyst for this cross-platform engagement. Members enjoy substantial savings through ride discounts, waived delivery fees, surge protection, cashback, priority service, and exclusive perks with key partners, establishing a compelling value proposition that strengthens long-term customer loyalty.\n\nThe Uber One Membership Product Engineering team consists of 70+ engineers distributed across 7 pillars, dedicated to expanding membership coverage, deepening user interaction, and maximizing savings to boost lifetime value and retention. The team's initiatives directly influence Uber's top-line revenue, user retention trajectory, and global unit economics.\n\nIn this role as Tech Lead and Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will define the technical roadmap and architecture powering key growth initiatives across the organization. Operating at the nexus of platform design, product engineering, and cross-functional strategy, you will partner with Product, Data Science, Marketing, and business leaders to engineer high-scale systems driving acquisition, engagement, benefits delivery, and retention for millions of global members.\n\nWhat you'll do\nSet technical direction across various engineering pillars encompassing membership growth, retention, benefits, membership experimentation, and platform infrastructure - ensuring architectural coherence and high engineering standards across a 70+ engineer organization.\nDesign and evolve large-scale distributed systems that power membership lifecycle management, benefits eligibility and fulfillment, savings computation, and real-time personalization across Uber's Rides, Delivery, and Grocery surfaces.\nLead complex, multi-team technical initiatives with significant cross-organizational dependencies - coordinating with Eats, Rides, Grocery, Payments, Pricing, Fares, Fulfillment Engineering teams to deliver integrated membership experiences.\nDrive data-informed product engineering by building instrumentation, establishing OKRs, and leveraging experimentation (A/B testing, holdout analysis) to optimize membership coverage, conversion, engagement, and savings delivery.\nArchitect for scale and reliability - designing systems that handle millions of real-time membership eligibility checks, benefits applications, and personalized offer computations with low latency and high availability.\nMentor and elevate engineers across the organization, including Senior and Staff-level ICs, raising the technical bar and fostering a culture of engineering excellence, code quality, and operational rigor.\nShape technical strategy in partnership with Product Management, Data Science, and business leadership - translating membership growth and engagement objectives into engineering roadmaps and architectural decisions.\nDeliver and review technical designs, code, and documentation to a high standard, championing best practices in service architecture, data management, and deployment.\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.\n10+ years of professional software development experience, building and operating systems in production environments.\nStrong expertise in backend development, distributed systems, and system design for large-scale, low-latency applications.\nDemonstrated ability to lead complex, multi-team technical initiatives with significant cross-organizational dependencies and design complexity.\nStrong cross-functional collaboration skills with Product, Data Science, Marketing, and business stakeholders.\nProven ability to mentor and elevate other engineers, including Senior and Staff-level ICs.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience building and scaling membership, subscription, or loyalty platform systems.\nProven track record of setting technical direction for a large engineering organization (50+ engineers across multiple teams).\nExperience with full-stack product engineering - building consumer-facing features that span backend services, APIs, and client integration points.\nDeep experience with experimentation frameworks, A/B testing at scale, and data-driven product development.\nBackground in pricing, personalization, or recommendation systems.\nExperience with multi-sided marketplace dynamics and understanding of how membership programs drive platform network effects.\nProficiency in languages such as Go, Java, or Python, with strong foundations in performance optimization and debugging across complex stacks.\nExperience designing systems that span multiple business verticals (e.g., Rides, Delivery, Grocery) with shared platform layers.\nTrack record of driving both technical innovation and raising organizational engineering standards across a large, distributed team.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with comfort navigating ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces.\nFamiliarity with agentic AI patterns and LLM-powered systems, with a track record of driving AI adoption across engineering teams to accelerate development velocity and product innovation\n\nFor San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 per year.\n\nYou will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.\n\nReady to Ride?\n\nThis isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook - it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves - we'd love to hear from you.\n\nYou may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.\n\nOffices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.\n\nUber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. 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