About team

　　The Payments Data Platform, based in Amsterdam, enables Uber's users (e.g. riders, drivers, eaters, restaurants, couriers, donors, and many others) to safely pay and get paid by modeling, storing and providing access to users payments data in a secure, compliant and efficient way.

　　This team is also responsible for tokenization, storing and proxying all of Uber's customer credit/debit cards and all bank accounts for smoother collection and weekly disbursement. We maintain best-in-class reliability and data security for our Uber customers and integrating engineering teams.

　　Would you like to be in the critical path for billions of euros and dollars, pounds and pesos, reals and rupees flowing through the marketplace? Join us and we'll show you how we do it and learn from you how to do it better.

　　About the Role

　　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 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 payment space within the Payments Experience 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 user experience 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'll Do

　　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. 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.Raise the bar to make Uber engineering truly best-in-class by improving best practices, producing exemplary code, documentation, automated tests, and thorough and precise monitoring.Staff-level engineers at Uber are exceptional 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 usersCuriosity, grit, a critical mind and a strong sense of responsibilityDemonstration of taking ownership, leading cross-team initiativesAdvanced knowledge of at least one programming language, and of OOP patterns. Java and Go are primary languagesExperience with database architectures on a theoretical and practical level (e.g. RDBMS vs. NoSQL)Clearly communicate technically by writing system designsDrive team standards for (code) quality, performance, and efficiencyWillingness to embrace Uber cultural values

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　Proven ability to develop other strong senior engineers into Staff engineers, operating and leading their own initiatives with an org-wide scope and high impactExperience designing and building APIs and components that interface with mobile and web applicationsUnderstanding of fault-tolerant systems and multi-datacenter / multi-region / cloud architectures (e.g. AWS)Familiarity with payments, PSPs, PCI and/or PDS2 compliance frameworks

　　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 [email protected].