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.
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What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
---- What the Candidate Will Do ----
- Lead, manage and grow a team of customer-focused software engineers
- Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team, and continuously improve software 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 cutting-edge technologies, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, and self-organization
- Hire top performing engineering talent and maintaining our commitment to diversity and inclusion
- Collaborate with and across teams to design, build, and ship great experiences for our customers
---- Basic Qualifications ----
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field AND 5+ years full-time Software Engineering work experience prior to Engineering Management experience AND 2+ years full-time Engineering Management work experience, INCLUDING
- 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.
- AND INCLUDES 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)
- Note the 5 years total of specialized software engineering experience may have been gained through education and full-time work experience, additional training, coursework, research, or similar (OR some combination of these). The years of specialized experience are not necessarily in addition to the years of Education & full-time work experience indicated.
---- 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.
We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world forward, together.
Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.
*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.