Uber Engineering Manager II 

United States, West Virginia 

360336608

About the Role

• Leads, mentors, and manages a team(s) of engineers to build and maintain frontend and backend services and solutions to support user-facing products, downstream services, or infrastructure tools and platforms used across Uber.
• Sets clear goals and provides direction by identifying technical priorities and opportunities, managing expectations, and considering tradeoffs. Builds trust across teams and consults with relevant partners when making decisions. Empowers delivery by allocating responsibilities, and maintaining productivity across engineering teams with well-defined goals and metrics. Develops the team's structure in alignment with broader organizational strategy and vision, owning: performance management, employee development, and hiring partnership with Talent Acquisition. Advocates engineering best practices and drives excellence for continuous improvement.

- - - - What the Candidate Will Do ----

• Master's Degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 4+ years of experience as Engineering Manager
• Exposure to or experience with:
• Product engineering
• Scalability engineering
• Distributed systems
• Team building:
• 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.

- - - - Preferred Qualifications ----

• ownership, taking a personal stake in the success of the product and the team
• invested in your work, a strong sense of engineering craftsmanship
• focused on the customer and the details that make their experience amazing
• practical, making the best use of time and resources to find the simplest solution that works
• current in relevant technologies and know how to implement them effectively
• naturally curious and have a burning desire to learn

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