Sr. Software Engineer - Backend

Uber Freight•Chicago, IL

8h•$184,993 - $211,550•Hybrid

About The Position

Uber Freight is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer - Backend to architect and develop high-quality software, ensuring efficient, maintainable, and scalable development of multiple applications and services. The role involves adhering to safe coding practices, identifying system impacts, assisting with project estimations and scheduling, and managing version control complexities. The engineer will perform unit and integration testing, identify testing gaps, and provide support for production issue resolution. This position requires acting as a specialist in complex matters, leading large projects end-to-end, mentoring junior engineers, defining cross-team project architecture, and being accountable for the delivery of complex workstreams. The role involves creating and assigning tasks for large-scale projects and working independently on complex and ambiguous tasks.

Requirements

Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a directly related field of study.
3 years of experience in Golang.
3 years of experience in Go FX.
3 years of experience in Thrift.
3 years of experience in gRPC.
3 years of experience in Bazel.
3 years of experience in Message Queues.
3 years of experience in Grafana.
3 years of experience in ELK.
3 years of experience in MySQL.
3 years of experience in GORM.
3 years of experience in Go-sqlmock.
3 years of experience in Goland.
3 years of experience in VS Code.
3 years of experience in Shell Scripting.
2 years of experience in Redis.
2 years of experience in Phabricator.
2 years of experience in Sourcegraph.
2 years of experience in Zap logging framework.
2 years of experience in a transportation or logistics environment.
2 years of experience in the web development frameworks React or AngularJS.
2 years of experience in M3 metrics.
2 years of experience in Yarpc.

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.