About The RoleStaff 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 in multiple domains to bear on building backend applications at scale, and who ideally has in-depth knowledge of microservices, distributed architecture, platforms, tools and frameworks.As a Backend Staff Engineer, you’ll provide technical leadership to engineers at Uber and drive technical and product strategy in Uber's Wallet space within the Money Hub organization. Additionally, you will seek to understand the customer and the business to a great extent, collaborating with Product almost on equal footing. This is not just about UX but also about understanding OKRs and investment decisions (e.g. when to platformize, when to spike, level of tech-debt…)This is an outstanding opportunity for a top-tier engineer and strong collaborator who can work with talented people in product, design, data science, operations, and engineering to help build our next-generation consumer payments experience products. It’s a very high-impact role where you will collaborate with all major product & platform teams at Uber. The role requires strong communication, leadership, and technical chops. You enjoy building solutions and guiding others equally passionately.What you will do

• Provide technical leadership to a hard-working, experienced, and diverse engineering team. Design and build the next major generations of the Wallet experience for all Uber users.
• Develop an excellent understanding of Uber’s business strategy and goals. You will be one of our key leaders expected to identify and solve our highest impact, highly complex problems.
• See the big picture and identify inefficiencies and opportunities for significant improvements across the entire Uber organization as a whole. Drive alignment on how to solve these and lead the delivery of high leverage solutions for them to have the widest impact.
• Set the standard to make Uber engineering truly outstanding by improving standard methodologies, producing exemplary code, documentation, automated tests, and detailed and precise monitoring.
• Staff-level engineers at Uber are outstanding mentors. They are trusted advisors for both team members and leaders alike.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in successfully designing and building large backend engineering projects, including launching more than one generation of a microservice application serving millions of users.
• Curiosity, grit, a critical mind and a strong sense of responsibility
• Demonstration of taking ownership, leading cross-team initiatives
• Advanced knowledge of at least one programming language, and of OOP patterns. Java and Go are primary languages
• Experience with database architectures on a theoretical and practical level (e.g. RDBMS vs. NoSQL)
• Clearly communicate technically by writing system designs
• Willingness to Embrace Uber cultural values

What you will need

• Proven track record to develop other strong senior engineers into Staff engineers, operating and leading their own initiatives with an org-wide scope and high impact.
• Experience designing and building APIs and components that collaborate with mobile and web applications.
• Understanding of fault-tolerant systems and multi-datacenter / multi-region / cloud architectures (e.g. AWS)
• Drive team standards for (code) quality, performance, and efficiency
• Familiarity with payments, PSPs, (PCI, PDS2) compliance frameworks

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.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.