Principal Engineer, Earner, Backend

Principal Engineer, Earner, Backend Department: Engineering Team: Backend Location: San Francisco, United States Type: Full-Time **About the Role** Principal engineers at Uber have a deep impact across a wide variety of business and technology decisions spanning multiple projects and locations. They are passionate and pragmatic technologists who are able to design scalable systems while delivering efficient code. They are not only collaborative role models, but also approachable leaders with a point of view within a larger group. They are humble teachers, technically mentoring a team of passionate engineers while also delivering uniquely challenging projects. A Principal-level Engineering role at Uber is special. Engineers at this level represent the top 2% of Engineers at Uber. As a Principal Engineer on the Earner Experience team, you'll be responsible for the systems & algorithms that power the day to day experience for millions of Drivers, Couriers & Shoppers on the platform. You will provide technical leadership to all backend engineers within the Earner Engineering team at Uber and influence product strategy on the Uber app, which directly impacts millions of lives each day. This is a unique opportunity for a seasoned engineer and strong collaborator who can work with talented people in product, design, data science, operations, and engineering to help build our next-generation consumer experience products. It's a very high impact role where you will interface with all major product & platform teams at Uber. The role requires strong communication, leadership and technical chops. **What You’ll Do** SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Consistently writes and documents high-quality code to solve strategically important problems; improves, role models, and promotes coding best practices; leads cross-organization development and adoption of key frameworks. - Provide high quality code and design review feedback to other engineers; defines, evangelizes and leads the adoption of standards and best practices within the organization for code and design reviews. - Evangelize technologies and their approp