Sr Staff Software Engineer

About the Role

Uber's Commerce Engineering group is responsible for maintaining and enhancing the infrastructure for orders and payments that enables all lines of businesses across Uber to conduct business. All commerce in and out of Uber flows through these mission-critical systems. With strict 4 9's availability requirements, this is one of our largest scalable systems and the complex day-to-day interactions require careful coordination from engineers that have a deep sense of quality, security, and ingenuity. The Money Platform team owns the lifecycle of money movement for all orders (ridesharing trips, freight loads, eats orders, etc.) from beginning to end. As a critical central platform, we straddle the line between infrastructure and product in such a way that we solve deep technical challenges, at scale, in problem domains that are specific to Uber's business. As a backend engineer on the Money Platform, you'll be writing reliable and maintainable code that teams across the company rely on while collaborating extensively with those teams to anticipate the platform features required to enable them to launch new and innovative products.

At Uber, we ignite opportunity by setting the world in motion. We take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving around the world.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

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

1. Work on payments platform as a tech lead backend engineer creating solutions catering to Uber's different lines of businesses
2. Be the advocate and design guardian for payments platform to solve business use cases working closely with core teams within Uber
3. Autonomously lead and deliver the project working with Product and other business functions
4. Create forward looking technical vision aligned with Uber's business priorities to evolve existing platform to its next iteration.
5. Mentor other engineers within and outside the team to be a force multiplier for the Company.

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent 10+ years of experience with systems software engineering.
2. Sound understanding of computer architecture and CS fundamentals.
3. Strong problem solving and coding skills demonstrated by solid academic or research projects
4. Demonstrated experience in leading large scale projects from concept to delivery while uplifting other engineers working with them.
5. Experience with Software Development processes such as design, planning, implementation, maintenance & documentation Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams
6. Passion for learning new technologies, domains, and challenging the status quo.
7. Grit, drive and a strong feeling of ownership coupled with collaboration.

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Payments Experience
2. Distributed systems experience
3. Held Sr IC title at a large scale company like Uber for past 2-3 years

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$257,000 per year - USD$285,500 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 https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.

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 fuels progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

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.

Client-provided location(s): Sunnyvale, CA

Job ID: Uber-148093

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-09-19T00:26:44