Sr Staff Engineer - Earner Payments & Cash Engineering

About the Role

The Earner Payments & Cash team is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Backend) to provide technical leadership for a group of engineers building global payment solutions while closely collaborating with product managers, data scientists, and other engineering teams. This tech lead will be responsible for leading, mentoring, and managing a strong, diverse, high-impact team of engineers. The Earner Payments & Cash team is organized around 3 main themes:

1. Enabling payments between earners and spenders such as physical cash and QR codes.
2. Ensuring earners have a delightful experience while navigating their options to get paid quickly while providing them with options for building wealth through financial products.
3. Ensuring that 7-8 million earners globally are paid reliably each week.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

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

1. Collaborate closely with product, design, and business teams to design and implement new product ideas and business needs with scalable solutions and frameworks
2. Drive adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability
3. Technical lead responsible for the team's technical design choices, code reviews, and reliability

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related field
2. 10+ years of full-time Software Engineering work experience
3. Programming language (GO, Java, C++)
4. Experience using AI to drive build engineering solutions more efficiently.

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
2. Experience building a highly scalable critical system
3. Experience leading and building resilient distributed systems
4. Experience providing tech leadership to a large team of engineers.
5. Experience building financial services or payment-related software e.g,. trading, lending, credit card, payments

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it 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.

Client-provided location(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands

Job ID: Uber-149071

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-10-29T00:31:23