Frontend Staff Engineer - Rider

About the Role

The Rider Web team is looking for an engineer to join the team responsible for the foundation of all web applications at Uber. This team focuses on providing a high-performance, secure, and reliable web ecosystem for all of our users through the creation and support of developer tools, and frameworks.

The team's main goal is to make Uber's web engineers productive and its web applications high quality utilizing a modern tech stack (.js & Redux, ES2017+, RPC, and Node.js). Some of our main products include Fusion.js, the framework Uber used in hundreds of internal and external web applications, as well as Base Web, Uber's component library.

What You Will Do

- Work with the team lead to implement the web stack of the future which can be leveraged by multiple use cases. The stack should be performant, and should enable rapidly building features
- Focus on all aspects of developer experience, and ensure its easy to build and test providing best in class tooling

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelors or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
- 5-years full-time Software Engineering work experience, which includes 3-years total technical software engineering experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Programming language (e.g. JavaScript, CSS, Node.js)
- Architecting, building, and maintaining web applications

- Note the 3-years total of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education and full-time work experience, additional training, coursework, research, or similar (OR some combination of these). The years of specialized experience are not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated.

- Build and evolve the underlying architectural foundation for Rider's web applications
- Create developer tools to increase the productivity and quality of our product teams
- Continue to refine and define our tech stack, utilizing open source tools, generalizing product-specific code, and/or building novel solutions to needs we encounter
- Contribute features and fixes back to open-source software, or create and promote our open-source tools
- Communicate and collaborate within and across teams to drive company-wide, large-scale projects
- Mentor, educate, and support those around you, as well as other web engineers within the company

Preferred Qualifications

- Deep JavaScript knowledge and experience with Node.js
- Expert in core and emerging web technologies and APIs (HTTP2, TCP/IP, CSS/HTML, Browser JS APIs).
- Deep understanding of Web and Information Security concepts and concerns, such as CORS, CSP, CSRF, XSS, etc
- Expert in debugging and profiling Browsers and Node.js, and understand ways to decrease page load speed and runtime slowdowns
- Knowledgeable in modern web tools (npm, Babel, Browserify/Webpack/Rollup, etc.) and modern web frameworks (Angular, Vue, etc.)

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$232,000 per year - USD$258,000 per year.

For Seattle, WA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$232,000 per year - USD$258,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$232,000 per year - USD$258,000 per year.

For all US locations, 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 [](;br>
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