Senior Engineer Manager, Payments Experience

About the Role

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Uber, you will be leading a group of engineers and engineering managers to build global solutions while closely collaborating with product managers, data scientists, and other engineering teams.

This role is within the Amsterdam-based Spender Payments & Checkout organization and will be responsible for leading, mentoring, and managing a strong, diverse, high-impact team. Guiding the spender through a seamless and intuitive payments experience. Spender Payments & Checkout team is organized around 3 main themes:

• Checkout Platform. Builds the lever that allows our spenders to seamlessly checkout.
• Spender Payment Success. Optimizes the lever.
• Payment Selection. Connects the user intent to the payment instrument.

What You’ll Do

Lead an engineering organization of 45 talented engineers and engineering managers and be accountable for:

• Ideating, developing and delivering payments product platforms

• Operational and engineering excellence initiatives

• Career growth for your org: you will personally develop engineering managers, and Staff-level ICs.

• Organizational and cross-organizational impact through designing, iterating on, and delivering processes supporting Uber engineering.
• Partnering with a diverse set of roles and individuals across disciplines like product management, talent acquisition, data science, product design and seniorities from fresh graduates to highly seasoned.

What You’ll Need

• 7+ years of engineering management experience, with demonstrated ability managing managers (4+ years).
• An ability to architect and design robust, high-scale systems by challenging engineers to think bigger and more generically in developing their solutions.
• Knowledge of large-scale, distributed systems, including SQL/NoSQL storage, transactional updates, asynchronous processing with message queues like Kafka, logging, system monitoring, observability and performance tuning.
• Experience working with multi-functional, globally distributed teams to coordinate work and deliver solutions that span multiple areas.
• Influencing and cross-functional collaboration with PMs, designers, data scientists, upstream business and infrastructure teams to identify, prioritize and solve problems.
• Proven ability to grow teams, recruit and retain strong engineering leaders as well as performance management
• Knowledge of client-side architecture for large teams across native mobile and web platforms including dependency management, feature flagging, user interface trade-offs and funnel design.
• Ability to keep pace with a strong engineering culture focused on reliability while prioritizing value to business stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Payments and an understanding of the worldwide and regional nuances in the domain.
• A background in product experimentation including the statistical knowledge, mechanics of experimentation and analysis so that you are able to interpret, debug and challenge experimental results when necessary.

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world 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.

*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.