About the Role
The Financial Products team is a highly focused growth team with a mission to build out Uber’s financial services. As one of the company’s core strategic initiatives, the team is responsible for launching high-impact projects that push the boundaries of Uber's services and offerings and has a direct impact on the company's performance.
On this team, we build user-facing fintech products and services that interface with the entire Uber platform, including Uber, UberEats, and Uber Driver apps. We ship on a global scale and pursue strategic projects in various markets to empower Uber’s business.
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
---- What the Candidate Will Do ----
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and business teams to design and implement new product ideas and business needs with a scalable solution
- Drive adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability
- Play an active role in the team's technical design choices, code reviews, and documentation
- Mentor and guide junior engineers on technical designs, coding best practices, and architecture.
---- Basic Qualifications ----
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer.
- Proven experience in software development, with a strong understanding of programming languages such as Go, Java, Python, or C++.
- Strong experience with backend development and microservices architecture.
- Experience with data analytics and experimental design in an engineering context.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a passion for innovation.
- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
---- Preferred Qualifications ----
- Strong sense of ownership
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Highly efficient coding in Golang, Java or any similar languages.
- Strong background in data analytics tools such as Hive, or similar.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and testing frameworks.
- Demonstrated leadership skills, with experience in mentoring and guiding junior engineers.
- Proven experience of shipping high-quality product features on schedule and with high velocity
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, to articulate complex ideas to various stakeholders.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$232,000 per year - USD$258,000 per year.
You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits.
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