Job Description

About the Role

The 3P team brings together Uber’s products, state of the art cognitive technologies and Uber’s engineering infrastructure to deliver automated conversational assistants a.k.a chatbots to provide enhanced customer experience for our third party customers beyond the Uber ecosystem. Our chatbots are capable of interacting with customers, performing cognitive analysis of customer interactions in real time and responding and interacting automatically with the customers. Our automated assistants are built on dialog management frameworks, Uber’s support logic, natural language understanding models and customer communication data to deliver automated support experience that reduces burden on human agents and provides faster response to the customers. We constantly thrive on providing the next generation of customer assistants which are a result of Uber's big bold bets. As a result we are building the next generation chatbots leveraging GenAI models to provide more personalized, empathetic, human-like conversations that are also compliant with Uber’s business policies .

What You'll Do

We are seeking a strong and passionate software engineer with experience in building software platforms leveraging microservices and front end stack for web experiences. You will be responsible for creating scalable, reliable, manageable platforms that deliver on customer support requirements at Uber by leveraging AI at Uber. You will be owning customer facing platforms that impact the support experience of millions of customers. You will also be leading the GenAI based support experiences as well as augmenting the existing platforms with new features and capabilities. Your responsibility will include identifying required changes across Uber’s engineering ecosystem, collaborating with engineering teams, driving consensus, implementing extensible, maintainable changes required to build state-of-the-art support experiences.

We are looking for someone who has passion for designing and driving large projects from inception to production. The right person will work with stakeholders, product managers, scientists, partner engineering teams to gather requirements and translate them into a platform feature. Must be a great communicator, team player, and a technical powerhouse.

Basic Qualifications

1 . Bachelors Degree, or above, in Comp Science or related field

2 . Scalable system architecture design

3 . Production-quality services, deployment, monitoring, and reliability.

4 . Microservice designs, gRPC or REST API development

5 . Ability to decompose complex business problems into clean, extensible, performant services and systems

6 . Logging, monitoring, performance troubleshooting and tuning experience

7 . Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment

8 . Comfortable in navigating multi-disciplinary teams with respect

9 . Focus on code quality in terms of coverage, code reviews

10 . Excellent technical writing skills to communicate design, requirements, flows, architecture

11 . Fluent in one of these programming languages: Golang, Scala, Java,

12 . Comfortable in one of these scripting languages: Javascript, python

13 . Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and software design principles.

14 . Experience with version control systems such as Git.

Preferred Qualifications

1 . Experience in machine learning, GenAI, or LLM technologies.

2 . Experience with building conversational assistants

3 . Dialog management systems like Google Dialogflow, Amazon Alexa

4 . Familiarity with large scale distributed systems like Kafka and cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.

5 . Familiarity with communication channel interfaces eg: WhatsApp, SMS, slack

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$202,000 per year - USD$224,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link .

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 fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form .

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.

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