Staff Engineer Web - Payments

About the Role

As part of the Payments Experience team, you will have direct responsibility for vital systems and processes. You will take ownership of key features and initiatives in crafting and building high quality, scalable systems in making paying on our platform reliable and efficient. Your work will directly impact the lives of Uber’s users across the globe. You’ll be responsible for architecting the web components that power many interactions within the payments domain on the Uber Platform.

What you will do

1. Define, Build and execute overall tech vision, future strategy and north star goals for core Uber flows enabling Payments.
2. Overall architect of the Payments Web Engineering tech space influencing the architectural advancement, operational health, and fundamental performance of web based on Core Web Vitals.
3. Work closely with backend engineers and cross platform developers to build our users’ Payment experiences. Work with product managers, architects and engineering managers to understand and define product requirements and roadmaps.
4. Technically lead one or more teams to deliver features across Uber's entire technical stack
5. Write maintainable and extensible code with high quality tests and documentation.
6. Understand and use existing systems efficiently, contributing to them where necessary
7. Ship high quality products with an eye on scale, reliability and engineering excellence

Basic Qualification

1. Minimum 10+ years of experience as a Web engineer and overall 12+ years of industry experience in the full stack space with passion to build frontend web tech. Prior experience building scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant systems.
2. Experience building complex large scale web applications with Node, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, HTML, and CSS.
3. Ability to contribute, influence, and drive payment initiatives that can serve multiple product lines and ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
4. Deep understanding of building full stack solutions with Web in forefront at scale: front-end, back-end, databases, caches, etc. Prior experience with finance technologies is an added advantage.
5. Belief that speed and quality aren’t mutually exclusive. You’ve shown good judgment about shipping as fast as possible while still making sure that products are built in a sustainable, responsible way.
6. Comfort at jamming on complex architecture and design principles with cross-functional and organizational teams.
7. You're comfortable thinking a few steps ahead of where the team is at now. Building proactive partnership with product and business to constantly evolve the vision and direction of Web Growth and Products.
8. Willingness to embrace the Uber cultural values

Preferred Qualifications

1. Robust understanding of web server and client performance optimizations.
2. Demonstrated fluency with one or more general-purpose programming languages, including: Java, Go, Python, C++ or Rust
3. Mentorship/Guidance: Track record of ability to team up for success through mentoring, coaching, and reviewing. Ability to help other engineers make sound architectural decisions, improve their code quality, and get out of their comfort zone.
4. Commitment: Demonstrate tremendously about keeping the Uber experience consistent for users and strive to make any issues invisible to users. You hold yourself personally accountable, jumping in and taking ownership of problems that might not even be in your team’s scope.
5. Hiring know-how: A thoughtful tech interviewer who constantly raises the bar for excellence. You believe that what seems amazing one day becomes the norm the next day, and that each new hire should significantly improve the team. You can articulate the team’s challenges and growth opportunities to a potential candidate

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.