Backend Developer at Trendyol Go in Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

ABOUT THE TEAM

Uber Eats Trendyol Go, originally founded as the instant delivery arm of Trendyol, one of Turkey’s leading e-commerce platforms, was acquired by Uber to join forces in accelerating the future of local commerce and on-demand delivery. Born from a dynamic startup spirit and backed by Uber’s global network , the platform connects local merchants, couriers, and customers in real time to meet everyday needs with speed and reliability.

Our on-demand platform offers instant delivery for food, groceries, and more bringing convenience and choice right to the doorsteps of millions. As part of Uber, the world’s largest mobility and delivery technology platform, we combine local market expertise with cutting-edge technology to redefine urban delivery.

We are committed to powering seamless experiences that enable customers to get what they want, when they want it, while creating flexible earning opportunities for couriers. With a mission to strengthen local commerce and foster positive impact on merchants and couriers, Uber Eats Trendyol Go is evolving rapidly expanding its offerings and reach, innovating with technology, and delivering exceptional service every step of the way

YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITY

This is a hands-on backend role with end-to-end ownership:

• Design and deploy features that power real-time, high-throughput services handling millions of daily orders.
• Drive architectural decisions at the service or domain level, formalizing them through ADRs, RFCs, and design docs to establish a foundation for the team.
• Operate what you build: Participate in on-call rotations, attend incident reviews, and drive measurable improvements in reliability, latency, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate across boundaries: Partner with Product, Data, and cross-functional teams to execute high-impact initiatives.
• Contribute to engineering practices: Testing strategy, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, AI Adoption

QUALITIES WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Team Player: Humble, lifelong learner with a customer-first mindset,
• Practical Knowledge: Proficient in OOP, DDD, design patterns, clean code, refactoring, unit and integration testing,
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in at least one of the following languages: Java, Go, C#, Kotlin, or NodeJS,
• Database Management: Experience with relational and non-relational database management systems such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Couchbase, Redis, and etc.,
• Messaging Patterns: Experience with messaging patterns like Saga and Outbox, and message brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.,
• Distributed Systems: Preferably experienced in fault-tolerant and loosely coupled distributed architectures, service-to-service communication, idempotency, eventual consistency,
• Containerization: Experience with Kubernetes, observability, monitoring, and resource optimization is a significant plus
• CI/CD Ownership: Pipelines you actually built and maintained, not just used
• AI-Assisted Development: Familiar with using AI tools for coding, testing, debugging, and improving engineering productivity, engineering quality standards
• Agile Mindset: Agile-minded team player with strong communication skills,
• Language Skills: Good command of written and spoken English.