Job Description
Sr Staff Engineer - Rider Foundations
Department: Engineering
Team: Backend
Location: Bangalore, India
Type: Full-Time
**About the Role**
The Rider Foundations team is responsible for the architecture, health, and quality of the Uber Rider app, serving hundreds of millions of users globally. We are in the midst of a generational technology transformation: adopting a new mobile architecture (Hyperion), building a GraphQL federation layer, launching a modernized Uber Lite experience, and reimagining how 200+ engineers build, test, and ship features. This Senior Staff IC will be a technical anchor across all of Rider Foundations : driving architecture decisions, raising the engineering bar, and shaping how the Rider app evolves over the next several years.
**What the Candidate Will Do:**
1. Serve as a technical anchor across Rider Foundations — contributing to architecture, health, and quality initiatives spanning backend services, mobile infrastructure, and developer tooling
2. Shape the technical strategy for Rider's next-generation app architecture, including GraphQL federation, new data layer patterns, and the migration path from legacy to modern systems
3. Drive engineering excellence across the broader Rider Core org (~70 engineers) — reviewing ERDs, raising the technical bar, and mentoring senior engineers
4. Partner with cross-org platform teams to align on API contracts, schema ownership, observability standards, and cross-platform technology strategy
5. Identify and tackle high-leverage technical problems that improve developer velocity, app reliability, and app quality — whether that means building new infrastructure, fixing systemic issues, or defining governance frameworks
**What the Candidate Will Need:**
1. 12+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in backend distributed systems and a strong understanding of mobile app ecosystems
2. Track record of driving large-scale, ambiguous technical initiatives across multiple teams — from strategy through production rollout
3. Experience designing APIs, data layers, or platform infrastructure that other