Software Engineer II

Uber Eats is evolving. Were expanding beyond food delivery into a platform for delivering what people need, whether thats groceries, pharmacy items, or retail goods. At the heart of this shift is INCA (Inventory & Catalog): the system that ingests, enriches, and normalizes merchant inventory data and serves it reliably across Ubers global systems.

Were looking for a Software Engineer in Aarhus who wants to grow with this platform and contribute to how we store, update, and publish catalog and inventory information around the world for Uber Eats.

To understand the platform youll work on and the challenges were solving, start here:

Scaling Uber Eats for Retail & Grocery

https://www.uber.com/en-DK/blog/scaling-uber-eats-for-everything/

Check our Aarhus Website:

https://jobs.uber.com/en/locations/aarhus/

What You Will Do

As part of the Catalog & Inventory team, your work will help shape how Ubers delivery platform scales, adapts, and expands into new categories. The services you contribute to will help:

• Serve everyones shopping needs, from small convenience stores to large supermarkets, with consistent, accurate catalog and inventory data.

• Make it easier for new merchants and business verticals to connect their inventory with our systems.

• Keep inventory and catalog data accurate and fresh in real time, even under heavy load.

• Support the reliability and extensibility of Ubers delivery platform as it grows into new categories.

You will:

• Implement backend services in Go that support catalog and inventory workflows across Ubers marketplace.

• Build and maintain reliable systems that handle real-time updates and ingestion workloads at scale.

• Work with cross-functional teams, engineering, merchant integrations, search, fulfillment, and product — to create aligned APIs and data models.

• Write high-quality code with a focus on clean implementation, good test coverage, and operational confidence.

• Participate in design discussions and contribute practical technical ideas with guidance from more senior engineers.

• Improve team practices around monitoring, documentation, and operational processes as you grow in your role.

Basic Qualifications

Required

• 4+ years building backend services at scale.

• Experience coding with Go, C++, Java, or Python.

• Experience with event-driven architecture.

• Ability to turn business problems into effective technical designs.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and iterating on solutions.

Nice to Have

• Experience with large catalog, search, or metadata platforms.

• Experience with distributed systems.

• Familiarity with distributed data stores, caches, and publish/subscribe systems.

• Background in e-commerce, retail platforms, or content management systems.

• Contributions to open-source projects or public technical discussions.

What We Offer

• Collaborate with exceptional engineering talent in Aarhus and across Ubers global engineering teams.

• Ownership over core platform services that run in production globally.

• A collaborative engineering culture where learning, design reviews, and documentation are encouraged.

• A local engineering hub in Aarhus with opportunities for global collaboration.

• Support for technical growth and opportunities to take on increasing responsibility.

• Flexible work policies and a healthy work/life balance.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - lets move it forward, together.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

\*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.