Airspace Products - Android Engineer Uber
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Uber Overview

At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. We take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world.

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward, together.

Job Description

About the Role

The Android engineer will focus on developing products that deliver the end-user experience for UberAIR (passenger-carrying) and Drone Delivery (food-carrying) operations. The role will be to extend Uber's Rider and Eats apps to support new products, and build a Pilot app to power Elevate flight operations.

What You'll Do / What You'll Need / Bonus Points / About the Team

What You'll Do

* Build delightful end-user facing user experiences for all Uber Elevate products
* Work within existing Uber apps to build and extend them to support new capabilities
* Work in a cross-functional team (engineers, designers, product) to deliver on critical business goals for Elevate

What You'll Need

* Extend existing mobile architectures (e.g. Presidio) and tackle complex dependency management challenges
* Strong design sense and ability to collaborate with product and designers to balance quality, speed and scalability.
* Thorough understanding of Android frameworks and capabilities, along with best practices
* Strong test-driven mindset with a clear eye towards for production stability
* Build high performance mobile features (and apps) which scale to millions of end users
* Bias toward action. You believe that speed and quality aren't mutually exclusive. You've shown good judgment about shipping as fast as possible while ensuring your products and platforms are built in a sustainable, responsible way--and you're comfortable making mistakes, provided you learn from them.
* At least 4+ years of mobile development

About the Team

The candidate will be assigned to the software engineering org within Elevate and initially report to the Senior Engineering Manager, Airspace Systems. The candidate will closely collaborate with other engineers, product managers and designers to deliver on their day-to-day goals. The candidate will need to thrive in a fast moving and multidisciplinary environment.