Senior Software Engineer - Tax Calculations

Senior Software Engineer - Tax Calculations Department: Engineering Team: Backend Location: Hyderabad, India Type: Full-Time **About the Role** We are looking for someone passionate about using technology to solve big business problems and who is hungry to make a difference. You have created software that can scale and handle complex interchange of data and compute between multiple geographical locations. You are excellent at fundamentals, have a phenomenal willingness to learn, and have a steadfast desire to follow through with the job. Someone with a passion for architecting, building, and scaling highly-available, mission-critical systems that support millions of users every day. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced engineer who is collaborative, has a healthy sense of curiosity, and acts with a responsibility to join Uber, work with like-minded people across the board, and help improve our next-generation FinTech platforms and scale it to the next level. \-\-\-\- What You Will Do ---- 1. Solid experience building reliable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and fundamentals - consensus, convergence, load balancing, data consistency and performance/efficiency constructs 2. Strong desire to learn and grow, while building the best-in-class systems, and a strong feeling of ownership coupled with collaboration 3. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents. 4. An ability to have fun while working on the hardest problems 5. Prior work experience in the Tax domain is a bonus \-\-\-\- Basic Qualifications ---- 1. MS/BS in Computer Science and at least 7+ years of individual contributor experience as a software engineer 2. Experience with Java, Go, C, or C++ (bonus points for more than one). 3. Detailed problem-solving approach and knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis. \-\-\-\- Preferred Qualifications ---- 01. Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues 02. Passion for driving continual improvement initiatives on engineering best practices like coding, testing, or mon