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Our work connects search, maps, and personalized discovery to help users explore places and find relevant offerings across Uber’s businesses, including Rides, Eats, and Ads.\nAs a Backend Software Engineer on the team, you’ll build the services and APIs behind these experiences. You’ll work alongside backend, mobile, and machine learning engineers, as well as product managers and data scientists, to turn ideas into reliable, performant features. Projects include cross line of business functionality in search, exploration and local discovery, with opportunities to build new experiences from the ground up.\nThis is a hands-on, product-focused engineering role. You’ll own well-scoped features from technical design through implementation, experimentation, deployment, and production monitoring, with support from experienced engineers. 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