Software Engineer II - Backend, UberEats Modes

About The Role

The Modes team with Uber Eats is responsible for alternate modalities of usage in the Eats app such as Pickup and Scheduling ahead of time. Our goal is to grow the number of orders that our users are placing by supporting more use cases to get them what they're looking for in a wider range of situations. We're a part of the broader Core Consumer team that owns most of the user-facing surfaces in the Eats app.

What You Will Do

• Work with product managers to take ideas from inception to delivered features in the hands of users
• Write technical design docs when needed to clearly communicate architecture and design decisions to other engineers
• Give detailed code reviews for teammates, pointing out potential issues and catching errors before the code is shipped
• Write tests for your code and help to enforce best practices and improve operational excellence on the team
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years full-time software engineering experience in a backend language/framework (e.g. Go, Java, Ruby, Python, NodeJS, etc)
• Passion for delivering high quality, high impact user experiences
• Ability to work across disciplines and teams, unblocking yourself when obstacles arise, and getting things done efficiently.
• Ability to use AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code effectively to accelerate your work while maintaining a high bar for code quality.
• Strong communication skills
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing Go in a production application
• Experience with Javascript and web development and a willingness to work across the full stack when necessary
• Experience working in a high-traffic production environment
  
  

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$167,000 per year - USD$185,500 per year. You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits., For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$167,000 per year - USD$185,500 per year. You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.