What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Staff Software Engineer position at Uber?
About The Role
Uber's Commerce Engineering group is responsible for maintaining and enhancing the infrastructure for orders and payments that enables all lines of businesses across Uber to conduct business. All commerce in and out of Uber flows through these mission-critical systems. With strict 4 9's availability requirements, this is one of our largest scalable systems and the complex day-to-day interactions require careful coordination from engineers that have a deep sense of quality, security, and ingenuity. The Money Platform team owns the lifecycle of money movement for all orders (ridesharing trips, freight loads, eats orders, etc.) from beginning to end. As a critical central platform, we straddle the line between infrastructure and product in such a way that we solve deep technical challenges, at scale, in problem domains that are specific to Uber's business. As a backend engineer on the Money Platform, you'll be writing reliable and maintainable code that teams across the company rely on while collaborating extensively with those teams to anticipate the platform features required to enable them to launch new and innovative products.
At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. We take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving around the world.
What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
---- What the Candidate Will Do ----
Uber's Commerce Engineering group is responsible for maintaining and enhancing the infrastructure for orders and payments that enables all lines of businesses across Uber to conduct business. All commerce in and out of Uber flows through these mission-critical systems. With strict 4 9's availability requirements, this is one of our largest scalable systems and the complex day-to-day interactions require careful coordination from engineers that have a deep sense of quality, security, and ingenuity. The Money Platform team owns the lifecycle of money movement for all orders (ridesharing trips, freight loads, eats orders, etc.) from beginning to end. As a critical central platform, we straddle the line between infrastructure and product in such a way that we solve deep technical challenges, at scale, in problem domains that are specific to Uber's business. As a backend engineer on the Money Platform, you'll be writing reliable and maintainable code that teams across the company rely on while collaborating extensively with those teams to anticipate the platform features required to enable them to launch new and innovative products.
At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. We take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving around the world.
What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
---- What the Candidate Will Do ----
- Work on payments platform as a tech lead backend engineer creating solutions catering to Uber's different lines of businesses
- Be the advocate and design guardian for payments platform to solve business use cases working closely with core teams within Uber
- Autonomously lead and deliver the project working with Product and other business functions
- Create forward looking technical vision aligned with Uber's business priorities to evolve existing platform to its next iteration.
- Mentor other engineers within and outside the team to be a force multiplier for the Company.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent 10 years of experience with systems software engineering.
- Sound understanding of computer architecture and CS fundamentals.
- Strong problem solving and coding skills demonstrated by solid academic or research projects
- Demonstrated experience in leading large scale projects from concept to delivery while uplifting other engineers working with them.
- Experience with Software Development processes such as design, planning, implementation, maintenance & documentation Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams
- Passion for learning new technologies, domains, and challenging the status quo.
- Grit, drive and a strong feeling of ownership coupled with collaboration.
- Payments Experience
- Distributed systems experience
- Held Sr IC title at a large scale company like Uber for past 2-3 years
Salary : $257,000 - $285,500