Design Engineer II

About the Role

Are you passionate about engineering user experiences that people love? As a Design Engineer on our Foundations UX team, you'll be at the forefront of transforming our design system into a technological and visual masterpiece. Collaborate with top-tier designers and engineers across Uber to take our industry-leading design tools to the next level that empower our teams to create seamless, delightful products.Your Design Engineering expertise will directly impact how we bring designs to code, revolutionizing the design-to-engineering handoff and defining design metrics across Uber's global business. Join us in shaping the future of design and engineering at Uber!

What You Will Do

• Work in a design environment where you challenge the norms and paradigms of user experience.
• Leverage data to identify and confirm bottlenecks in large-scale design and development workflows.
• Use engineering build tools, monorepo, and IDE to reproduce and debug UI janks in order to formulate cross functional solutions.
• Prototype difficult-to-visualize concepts to justify design and technical decisions.
• Learn new skills and emerging technologies (AI, VR, Unity, etc.) to explore engineering feasibility.
• Connect people to ideas in a way that generates excitement

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience working on public-facing consumer products
• Strong development skills using JavaScript, Compose, or SwiftUI.
• Experience using data to form and validate strategic hypotheses.

Preferred Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Human-Computer Interaction, or equivalent practical experience
• Capable of production-level engineering in one's own area of technical focus.
• Understand the product release cycle, making necessary tradeoffs and prioritization decisions to ship.
• Experience working with teams of engineers and QAs.
• Experience designing tools and solutions such as Figma Plugins, assets management, etc.
• Experience conducting or participating in user studies.
• Has at least one developed design proficiency, such as interaction, motion, visual or UX design.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$146,000 per year - USD$162,000 per year.

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 https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

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.