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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.
Job Responsibility:
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
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
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
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
Serve as an exceptional mentor, acting as a trusted advisor to both team members and leaders
Requirements:
8+ years of experience designing and building large-scale backend engineering projects, including launching multiple generations of microservice applications
Curiosity, grit, a critical mindset, and a strong sense of responsibility
Demonstrated ability to take ownership and lead cross-team initiatives
Understanding of fault-tolerant systems and multi–datacenter / multi–region / cloud architectures (e.g. AWS)
Experience with database architectures at both a theoretical and practical level (e.g., RDBMS vs. NoSQL)
Advanced knowledge of at least one programming language and of OOP patterns (e.g. Java, Go)
Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts by writing system designs
Ability to drive team standards for code quality, performance, and efficiency
Willingness to embrace Uber’s cultural values
Nice to have:
Proven ability to develop senior engineers into staff level engineers who can operate and lead initiatives with wider scope and high impact
Experience designing and building APIs and components that interface with mobile and web applications
Familiarity with payments, PSPs, PCI, and/or PSD2 compliance frameworks