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Amsterdam
1000
Noord-Holland
Nederland

Contract

Vooltijds, Onbepaalde duur

Datum gepubliceerd

2025-11-28

Online tot

2026-01-27
EUR 15.00 HOUR

Senior Staff Engineer, JVM

Uber
Noord-Holland 1000 Amsterdam
1 week geleden

Uber Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

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About The Role

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About The Role

We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership across the Developer Platform teams based in Amsterdam. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role for someone passionate about building platforms that enable thousands of engineers to move fast and ship reliably at scale.

You will drive the design, evolution, and cohesion of critical backend and developer infrastructure services used across Uber's engineering organization. This includes build and test platforms, CI/CD, developer tooling, IDE integrations, language-specific frameworks and plugins, and open-source leadership for our backend JVM ecosystem of Kotlin, Java, and Scala. You'll play a key role in aligning technical direction across the JVM backend ecosystem, partnering closely with global counterparts and industry collaborators, mentoring senior engineers across multiple teams, and creating a best-in-class developer experience for our engineers.

What You'll Do

Lead the architecture and roadmap for developer platform initiatives in Amsterdam.
Drive cross-team alignment and consistency across build systems, deployment tooling, and JVM-based frameworks.
Deeply engage with engineers across the org to identify gaps and build long-term platform solutions.
Act as a technical partner to engineering managers and product leaders, contributing to org-wide strategy.
Provide hands-on guidance, mentoring, and technical direction to senior/staff-level engineers.
Influence global platform initiatives and ensure strong collaboration across sites.

What We're Looking For

10+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering roles.
Proven experience operating at Staff+ level in large-scale engineering environments.
Deep expertise in the JVM ecosystem , with hands-on experience in both Java and Kotlin.
Prior experience with monorepos, Bazel or similar, or internal developer platforms.
Track record of building and scaling distributed systems, CI/CD infrastructure, or developer-facing platforms.
Strong architectural thinking, especially in high-scale, multi-team environments.
Experience influencing engineering strategy across orgs and locations.
Experience influencing long-term product vision and ecosystem direction to serve developer customers.
Experience leading horizontally across many teams and mentoring downstream tech leads.
Exceptional communication and mentorship skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Build/test infrastructure to data-intensive workflows powered by Apache Spark and other distributed systems.
Contributions to open-source JVM tooling or frameworks.
Experiencing collaborating across companies and industry engagement and leadership.
Experience building SDKs, internal libraries, backend or mobile infrastructure is a plus.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time