Sr. Python Developer

What You’ll Do:

• Architect & build our core backend using modern microservices patterns
• Develop intelligent AI/ML-driven systems for financial document processing at scale
• Own database design (SQL + NoSQL) for speed, reliability, and compliance
• Integrate vector search, caching layers, and pipelines to power real-time insights
• Ensure security, compliance, and data privacy at every layer of the stack
• Collaborate directly with founders to translate vision into shippable features
• Set engineering standards & culture for future hires

What You Bring:

• Core SkillsDeep expertise in Python (Django, FastAPI, or Flask)
• Strong experience in SQL & NoSQL database architecture
• Hands-on with vector databases and caching systems (e.g., Redis)
• Proven track record building scalable microservices
• Strong grounding in security best practices for sensitive data

Experience:

• 1+ years building production-grade backend systems
• History of owning technical decisions that impacted product direction
• Ability to solve complex, high-scale technical problems
• Bonus Points ForExperience building LLM-powered applications at scale
• Background in enterprise SaaS, or financial software
• Early-stage startup experience
• Familiarity with financial reporting/accounting concepts

Why Join Us:

• Founding team equity with significant upside
• Direct influence on product architecture & company direction
• Work with cutting-edge AI/ML tech on real-world financial data
• Backed by top-tier VC
• Join at ground zero and help shape our engineering culture

• Ruby

• Rails framework

• MySQL

• API development

• Design Patterns

Develop, test, and maintain all APIs

• Manage and maintain SQL and No-SQL tables, data, and stored procedures within all databases

• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement

• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive code to enhance the user experience and support analytical products

• Troubleshoot and diagnose production issues

Mandatory skills

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.

• 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.