About the Role
Staff Engineers at Uber are expected to have a deep impact on a wide variety of technology decisions, spanning many projects across an entire org-and in many cases, multiple orgs. We are looking for a technologist who brings experience across multiple domains to bear on building backend applications at scale, ideally with in-depth knowledge of microservices, distributed architectures, platforms, tools, and frameworks.
As a Backend Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership to engineers at Uber and drive technical and product strategy in Uber's payment space within the Payments Experience organization. You will also seek to deeply understand the customer and the business, collaborating with Product as an equal partner. This includes not only user experience, but also understanding OKRs and investment decisions (e.g., when to platformize, when to spike, how to address tech debt).
This is an outstanding opportunity for a top-tier engineer and strong collaborator who can work with talented partners across product, design, data science, operations, and engineering to build our next-generation consumer payments experience. It is a high-impact role that requires collaboration with major product and platform teams across Uber. The role demands strong communication, leadership, and technical skills. You enjoy building solutions and guiding others with equal passion.
---- What You Will Do ----
1. Provide technical leadership to a passionate, experienced, and diverse engineering team. Design and build the next major generations of the payment experience for all Uber users.
2. Develop an excellent understanding of Uber's business strategy and goals. As a key leader, you will be expected to identify and solve our highest-impact, most complex problems.
3. See the big picture and identify inefficiencies and opportunities for significant improvements across the broader Uber organization. Drive alignment on how to address these and lead the delivery of high-leverage solutions with the widest impact.
4. Raise the bar to make Uber engineering truly best-in-class by improving best practices and producing exemplary code, documentation, automated tests, and precise, comprehensive monitoring.
5. Serve as an exceptional mentor, acting as a trusted advisor to both team members and leaders.
---- What You Will Need ----
1. 8+ years of experience designing and building large-scale backend engineering projects, including launching multiple generations of microservice applications.
2. Curiosity, grit, a critical mindset, and a strong sense of responsibility.
3. Demonstrated ability to take ownership and lead cross-team initiatives.
4. Understanding of fault-tolerant systems and multi-datacenter / multi-region / cloud architectures (e.g. AWS).
5. Experience with database architectures at both a theoretical and practical level (e.g., RDBMS vs. NoSQL).
6. Advanced knowledge of at least one programming language and of OOP patterns (e.g. Java, Go).
7. Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts by writing system designs.
8. Ability to drive team standards for code quality, performance, and efficiency.
9. Willingness to embrace Uber's cultural values.
---- Preferred Qualifications ----
1. Proven ability to develop senior engineers into staff level engineers who can operate and lead initiatives with wider scope and high impact.
2. Experience designing and building APIs and components that interface with mobile and web applications.
3. Familiarity with payments, PSPs, PCI, and/or PSD2 compliance frameworks.
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 - let's 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.
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