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Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Uber

Uber

Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Jan 31, 2026

About the Role

Earner Org represents the supply side of the marketplace, serving the needs of drivers and couriers (collectively called Earners - 8M+ globally and increasing everyday) and empowering them to improve their earnings and have a delightful experience on Uber as the largest Gig Platform globally.

Earner India engineering is responsible for building products and solutions that power this experience, through their onboarding and operational journey. These include Earner's onboarding and compliance, online experience on the Earner App, progression, loyalty constructs and Metrics/Performance tracking

As part of the Earner Access Growth & Gateway team, you will be working on unlocking and simplifying Earner's access to supply hours through Onboarding & ELC product capabilities and intelligence layers.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

---- What the Candidate Will Do ----

  1. Design/architect, develop and/or test software applications using Uber's technology stack
  2. Apply technical knowledge to evaluate complex development/projects and provide recommendations to resolve complex technical issues;
  3. You'll be very close to business concerns, working alongside Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists and Operations team, to understand what's most important, and translating that to systems, designs, and code that best solves for today, as well as plans for tomorrow
  4. You will build user-facing products - the work you do will impact all earners in the Uber ecosystem. You will be responsible for the delivery of high quality products with fast iterations.

---- Basic Qualifications ----

  1. 8+ years of overall experience with a track record as a software engineer
  2. Strong experience in software design and architecture.
  3. Experience going through the full software cycle of requirements, design, coding/testing, rollout/deploy standard methodologies in delivering world class software and services.
  4. Experience in technical collaboration with other engineers and product managers
  5. Passion about your team's mission and the self-starting personality to make things happen.
  6. Proven development experience and proficiency in distributed systems and micro services.
  7. Proven programming skills in Go, Java, Python, or similar.
  8. Proven frontend programming skills in Javascript, react, or similar.
  9. Adept at communicating and collaborating effectively with others, promoting your ideas as well as being humble when you may be wrong
  10. Excited to learn from and guide others and are passionate about creating tools, products and providing support for other junior engineer.

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

  1. Experience in developing a large scale consumer internet platform/product
  2. Experience in a fast paced environment.
  3. Worked in an environment of collaboration across geographies
  4. Has mentored and guided engineers on technical implementations
  5. Work experience with operational/agent workflows will be a plus

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - let’s move it forward, together.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.