About the Role
As the Engineering Leader, you’ll take on the challenge of leading a team of full-stack engineers to build high-quality, scalable systems from the ground up. You’ll be navigating across teams, aligning stakeholders, and driving major migrations—all in a fast-paced environment where scalability, reliability, and precision are critical. The role will require deep technical expertise, strong leadership, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams across time zones to ensure alignment and successful delivery.
- - - - What the Candidate Will Do ----
- Establishes an inclusive culture and values diverse perspectives.
- Ability to compose and maintain a team with the appropriate blend of skills, seniority, and diversity that achieves technical team solutions while supporting individual growth.
- Ability to get and keep commitment from the direct team and partner teams.
- Expertise supporting and empowering a team to achieve mission and realize vision.
- Expertise in building trust across teams.
- Expertise managing expectations and considering tradeoffs when establishing project plan and timelines.
- Expertise leveraging diverse input, existing solutions, and available resources to make key decisions and achieve engineering milestones.
- Expertise in monitoring success through effective use of measurable metrics and KPIs.
- Track record of delivering results in fast-paced and highly ambiguous environments
- Expertise conducting thorough reviews and post-mortems, performance management, mentorship, and employee development.
- Passion for engineering excellence, demonstrated by championing quality, pushing for excellence, and achieving continuous improvement.
- Expertise in partnering with talent acquisition to drive hiring excellence and obtain quality hiring results.
- History of developing employees and up-leveling the organization.
- - - - Basic Qualifications ----
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
- Experience setting roadmap and goals for the engineering team and leading engineering projects from planning through review stages.
- Experience consulting with key partners, maximizing engineering resources, using measurable metrics and/or KPIs, and collating technical artifacts to make key engineering decisions.
- Experience ensuring delivery by allocating engineering talent effectively to achieve engineering deliverables, empowering engineers, and maintaining productivity.
- Experience hiring, team building, performance management, mentorship, and employee development.
- Experience advocating engineering best practices and driving engineering excellence within their team and organization
- 3-4+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
- - - - Preferred Qualifications ----
- Professional industry exposure to and/or experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Programming language (e.g. C, C++, Java, Python, or Go)
- Expertise in driving data strategy, and delivering high-impact solutions.
- Experience in building and scaling risk detection and mitigation systems, with a focus on fraud prevention and security.
- Master's Degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Exposure to or experience with:
- Product engineering
- Scalability engineering
- Distributed systems
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$218,000 per year - USD$242,000 per year.
You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link .