Sr Engineering Manager, Marketplace Uber
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Uber Overview

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 in more than 600 cities around the world.

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.

Job Description

About the Role

The Marketplace Team tackles some of the hardest quantitative problems related to improving Uber's real-time marketplace, which impacts the everyday experiences of our riders and driver partners. We are looking for a Senior Manager who can lead multiple key initiatives.

What You'll Do / What You'll Need / Bonus Points / About the Team

What You'll Do

* Lead teams working on driver pricing, incentives, and associated real-time systems and machine learning.
* Driving the vision and execution of the platforms for pricing and incentives that unify our architecture and enable optimization across pricing levers, understanding product goals and working with your engineering peers to ensure the platforms being built are one step ahead of product needs.
* Collaborating with Data Science and Engineering to build production grade machine learning and optimization algorithms and delivering product impact.

What You'll Need

* Experience. Experience managing engineering teams of 20+ engineers. Working across office locations (SF & PA for this role). Significant experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, and robust platforms. Experience growing tech leads to enable your team to scale.
* Quantitative Algorithms: Getting sophisticated quantitative algorithms into production. Understanding how to robustify prototype algorithms when scaling in production.
* Platform Experience: Experience building platforms that serve multiple business needs using reusable components. Designing with a one year+ horizon while delivering on immediate needs incrementally. Ability to build for evolving product requirements rather than a specific vision of a product iteration. Experience working with multiple product managers with competing priorities and making the appropriate technical trade-offs.
* Engineering excellence. You are a strong technical leader with deep knowledge of distributed systems and data pipelines. Bonus if you have a background in batch and real-time large scale data processing systems (Storm, Spark, Flink etc.), graph processing technologies etc and expertise with internals of distributed data storage systems (Cassandra etc.)
* Mentorship. The most important part of your job is setting your team up for success. Through mentorship, teaching, and team building you help the engineers on your team achieve their career goals, make strong technical decisions, push them out of their comfort zones to grow, while creating an inclusive and fun environment.
* Customer Focus. You value work that has tangible impact on an end user, in this case our drivers, and keep your customer top of mind while building.
* Teamwork. You value collaboration and teamwork as a core team value.
* Hiring Prowess. You are a strong leader who can attract talent that raises the bar for excellence. You value building a team of people with diverse skills and backgrounds.
* Ownership. You care a great deal about the quality of the work your team delivers and strive to make any issues invisible to our drivers. You hold yourself accountable and take ownership of problems that may be outside of the scope of your team. You roll up your sleeves to do what it takes to support the team in a time of need.
* 8 Minimum Years of Experience with Backend

About the Team

Our goal in Marketplace Dynamics is to create compelling business value through creating driver earnings opportunities, rider value, and efficiency by matching riders with drivers. We are looking for leaders that geek out about large scale real-time distributed systems, have a passion for building long term scalable solutions that can stand the test of time over multiple years, and a passion for building a team that raises the bar for engineering excellence and team happiness.