About the Role
If you are interested in developing the future architecture of Uber's Rider stack by building its core building blocks, join the Rider Backend Platform team. We build backend architectural components and frameworks comprising of services, libraries, state storage and other building blocks that aim to optimise the core Rider flow and foundational features that are shared among all rider products, including but not limited to, Uber Rider app, UberLite, m.uber.com, etc.
What You'll Do
- Work with Rider product engineering teams to identify, design and build solutions that help scale Rider services and platforms.
- Drive adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability
- Analyze and decompose complex software systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence design for scalability and testability
- Work with smart and motivated teammates in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Build elegant backend platform components for high throughput and low latency distributed systems.
- Solve challenging problems with cutting edge design and algorithms.
What You'll Need
- 4+ years Strong meaningful Individual contributor experience as a software engineer
- Design: Knowledge of data structures and an eye for design. You can discuss the tradeoff between design choices, both on a theoretical level and on an applied level.
- Strong coding/debugging abilities: You have advanced knowledge of at least one programming language, and are happy to learn more. Our core languages are Go and Java.
- Fast learner: We're looking for software engineers who thrive on learning new technologies and don't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. You should be able to adapt easily to meet the needs of our massive growth and rapidly evolving business environment.
- A team player: You believe that you can achieve more on a team -- that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You rely on others' candid feedback for continuous improvement.
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Business acumen: You understand requirements beyond the written word. Whether you're working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of customers, your attention to details leads to a delightful user experience.
About the Team: **Rider Backend Platform**
Builds the core building blocks needed to power the rider experiences on the different Rider facing apps including the core Uber app, Uber Lite, Web as we move on to become the preferred transportation platform for millions of riders all over the world.
Uber
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.

About Uber
About
Uber Technologies, Inc. functions as a technology platform for the transportation of both people and things. This firm offers multi-modal delivery services for restaurant meals, transportation services for individuals, and connection services for freight carriers and shippers. Eats, Rides, Freight, ATG, Other Bets, and Other Technology Programs are the five components that make it function well. Rides Drivers provide customers with rides in a variety of vehicles including auto-rickshaws, automobiles, minibusses, motorbikes, and taxis. Users may connect with Rides Drivers via Rides Goods.
Customers can search for and locate local restaurants, place an order for a meal, and choose to either pick it up or have it delivered via the Eats category. The Freight division is responsible for connecting carriers and shippers on the platform by utilizing its brand recognition, one-of-a-kind technology, and expertise in disrupting industries. The company was founded in 2009 by Travis Kalanick, Oscar Salazar Gaitan, and Garrett Camp, and it has its headquarters in San Francisco, California.
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Exp: 4 to 7 Years
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- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- 4+ years of experience in software development
- Strong proficiency in Java with deep understanding of web technology stack
- Hands-on experience developing applications with Spring Boot framework
- Solid understanding of Python programming language with practical Flask framework experience
- Working knowledge of NATS server for messaging and streaming data
- Experience deploying and managing applications in Kubernetes
- Understanding of microservices architecture and RESTful API design
- Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker)
- Experience with version control systems (Git)
Skills & Competencies
- Skills Java (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security)
- Python (Flask, SQL Alchemy, REST APIs)
- NATS messaging patterns (pub/sub, request/reply, queue groups)
- Kubernetes (deployments, services, ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets)
- Web technologies (HTTP, REST, WebSocket, gRPC)
- Container orchestration and management
- Soft Skills Problem-solving and analytical thinking
· 3+ years of Java backed application development and implementation experience.
· Minimum of one year of experience in Cloud, AWS Engineering & Development .
· Demonstrated knowledge of Distributed and Scalable systems.
· Experience on AWS Services is a big plus, such as EC2, ECS, ECR, Lambda, Elastic Cache, API Gateway.
· Knowledge about API design standards, patterns and best-practices especially Swagger and OpenAPI 3.0, REST, SOAP, MQ, JSON, Microservices etc.
· Java Microservices, RESTful Web Services.
· Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate.
· JMS, queues, JBoss/Wildfly.
· Tools - JUnit, Easymock, Mockito, Docker, Kubernetes, Teraform.
Founder’s LinkedIn profile
Dheeraj Pandey
(Founder, Investor, & Then-CEO of Nutanix / One of the Indian origin guy out of 10 Board Member of- Adobe / Alumni- IIT, Kanpur & University of Texas, Austin)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpandey/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpandey/
&
Chandra Nath
(Vice President- Nutanix/ Vice President, Head of International- Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd) – Alumni- IIT, Kanpur, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandranath/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandranath/
&
Manoj Agarwal
(Co-Founder at Stealth Startup, Previously SVP Engineering & GM Hybrid Cloud at Nutanix/ Alumni- IIT, Kanpur)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/devreveler/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/devreveler/
- Headquarters: Austin, Texas, United States
- Year founded: 2020.
- Work Location: Bangalore
- Team size: 35-40 (In US from companies like Google, Airbnb, Blizzard, Facebook, Palantir, Microsoft, CapitalOne, Nutanix and Confluent)
- Funding: 50 M USD (raised the largest seed round in the history of Silicon Valley)
Note:
We already have a team of 30-35 people in San Jose, California, United States, now we are building a new team in india and they are hiring 0-5 years of rock stars from top notch colleges (Top 5 ranked IIT’s only & BITS) & companies only.
Note:
Basically, I did not have the exact JD with myself, but I can arrange an Exploratory call for you with above senior and core members of a company (Dheeraj/Chandra/Manoj).
Job Role – Backend developer.
If you think, you are one of them then please reply with your interest and we will take your candidature ahead for next level of evaluation. (No Bar of budget for strong candidate).
Looking forward to taking you to the next level of technology.
Warm Regards,
Rahul Rajput
Senior talent acquisition
- Write clean, well- designed code
- Produce detailed specifications
- Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
- Follow industry best practices
- Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary.
Requirements :
- Knows best practices for front- end development
- Strong knowledge of Javascript APIs.
- Must have experience in building web applications in Python/Django
- Able to handle multiple databases in Django.
- Knows how to do multiple environments (production/ staging)setup in Django.
- Knows how to set up/deploy Django apps in AWS.
- Knowledge of MongoDB, postgresql mysql
- Familiar with Docker/Docker- compose
Job Description:
Skills Required:
- Backend developer with hands-on programming experience in Node Js / Python / Golang
- Expertise in developing REST APIs with any backend framework using above languages.
- Expertise in system design & architecture patterns.
- Experience in building reusable code and libraries for future use.
- Experience in optimising application for maximum speed and scalability.
- Strong fundamentals in computer programming, data structure & algorithms.
- Exposure to AWS services like S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, lambda & API gateway.
- Good understanding for SQL & NoSQL dB’s, preferably work experience with MongoDB.








