Engineering Manage II

Responsibilities:

• Lead, manage and grow a team of customer-focused software engineers in delivering and maintaining features that impact millions of Uber riders.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team, and continuously improve software engineering practices.
• Set up the right processes to ensure the team follows best engineering practices.
• Own the craftsmanship, reliability, and scalability of your solutions.
• Bring a passion to stay on top of industry trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, and participate in internal and external technical communities.
• Encourage innovation, implementation of groundbreaking technologies, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, and self-organisation.
• Collaborate with and across teams to design, build, and ship great experiences for our customers.
• Prioritise stories, features and bugs to deliver the most value to users quickly.

Requirements:

• Minimum 8 years of proven experience in building large-scale customer-facing products.
• 2+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of technical architecture, system design, and problem-solving acuity for sophisticated technical challenges.
• Proven experience in directly managing high-performing engineering teams, leveraging tech leads and senior engineers effectively with clear project plans and timelines.
• Passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product Management, Data Science, and Business partners.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• A passion for crafting user-facing products and experiences.
• Significant experience in designing and operating critical high-scale systems.
• A high bar across the board - for your own contributions, for the people you work with, and for the products you work on.
• Deep understanding of full-stack software development with experience leading both backend and mobile engineers.
• Ability to drive multi-functional partner consensus across multiple Engineering organisations, etc.
• Strong data-driven prioritisation skills and unafraid to say no to any level of authority when things don't look right.
• Ownership, taking a personal stake in the success of the product and the team.