7 Actions by Uber Eats in Scaled Search Without Breaking the System (or the User Experience)

The backend bloat was real - but they rewrote the rules, not just the code

TLDR

• Uber Eats stopped overloading client tokens and moved all metadata lookup server-side for faster, cleaner, and safer search flows

• They rebuilt ingestion to prioritize what matters (like price or availability) over cosmetic fluff-real-time where it counts

• Search was split into recall-first and rank-second layers-fetch fast, personalize later

• Delivery zo…