Sr Staff Software Engineer

Sr Staff Software Engineer Department: Engineering Team: Backend Location: Sunnyvale, United States Type: Full-Time **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 ---- 1. Work on payments platform as a tech lead backend engineer creating solutions catering to Uber's different lines of businesses 2. Be the advocate and design guardian for payments platform to solve business use cases working closely with core teams within Uber 3. Autonomously lead and deliver the project working with Product and other business functions 4. Create forward looking technical vision aligned with Uber's business priorities to evolve existing platform to its next iteration. 5. Mentor other engineers within and outside the team to be a force multiplier