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We’re moving beyond food to become a platform for delivering what people need, whether that’s groceries, pharmacy items, or retail goods. At the heart of this shift is INCA (Inventory & Catalog): the system that takes in massive inventories from merchants, enriches and normalizes that data, and serves it reliably across Uber’s global systems.\nWe’re looking for Senior Software Engineers in Aarhus who want to help shape this platform and take ownership of critical parts of how we store, update, and publish catalog and inventory information around the world for Uber Eats.\nTo understand the platform you’ll work on and the challenges we’re solving, start here:\nScaling Uber Eats for Retail & Grocery\nhttps://www.uber.com/en-DK/blog/scaling-uber-eats-for-everything/\nWhat You Will Do\nAt the Catalog & Inventory team, your work will directly shape how Uber’s delivery platform scales, adapts, and expands into new categories. The services you build will help:\nServe everyone’s shopping needs, from small convenience stores to large supermarkets, with consistent, accurate catalog and inventory data.\nMake it easier for new merchants and business verticals to connect their inventory with our systems.\nKeep inventory and catalog data accurate and fresh in real time, even under heavy load.\nSupport the reliability and extensibility of Uber’s delivery platform as we grow into new categories.\nYou will:\nDesign and build backend services in Go that power catalog and inventory data throughout Uber’s marketplace.\nBuild and maintain systems that handle real-time updates and high-volume ingestion workloads, think billions of updates per day.\nWork with cross-functional teams, including engineering, merchant integrations, search, fulfillment, and product, to make sure APIs and data models align with shared goals.\nPush for high-quality design, testing, observability, and performance in everything we build.\nTake ownership of services from design through production and help shape the technical direction of the team.\nImprove how we work, refining monitoring and on-call practices, documentation, and architectural decisions.\nBasic Qualifications\nRequired\n6+ years building backend services at scale\nExperience coding with Go, C++, Java, or Python\nExperience with event-driven architecture\nAbility to turn business problems into effective technical designs\nComfortable navigating ambiguity and adapting to change\nNice to Have\nExperience with large catalog, search, or metadata platforms\nExperience with distributed systems\nFamiliarity with distributed data stores, caches, and pub/sub systems\nBackground in e-commerce, retail platforms, or content management systems\nContributions to open-source projects or public technical discussions\nWhat We Offer\nWork alongside exceptional engineering talent in Aarhus and across Uber’s global engineering teams\nOwnership over core platform services that run in production globally\nA collaborative engineering culture where design reviews, learning, and documentation are expected and valued\nLocal engineering hub in Aarhus, Denmark with opportunities for global collaboration\nSpace to grow technically and mentor others\nFlexible work policies and a healthy work/life balance","description_format":"text","description_chars":3338,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Transportation & Logistics","Ride Hailing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T10:05:17Z"}],"liveness":{"score":39,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.518,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":4,"reasons":["conf:5","stale_co","velocity","win:late","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-27T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/uber-senior-software-engineer-3","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/uber-senior-software-engineer-3.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-28T00:46:10Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":316,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4684,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z"}}}