Uber

Engineering Manager II, Merchant Selection

Uber$232K — $258K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong leadership skills and technical expertise in system design and problem-solving.
  • Experience with high-scale backend systems.
  • Proven ability to collaborate effectively across diverse functions and stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated leadership experience in maintaining reliability of tier1 services.
  • Commitment to maintaining high standards for personal and team contributions.
  • Successful track record in hiring and developing high-performing teams.
  • 10+ years of relevant engineering experience with 2+ years managing engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of backend and fullstack engineers in product deliveries.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and execute the product roadmap.
  • Oversee prioritization and delivery of enhancements to maximize user value.
  • Ensure operational excellence in areas like support and incident management.
  • Champion engineering best practices to drive team improvements.

Benefits

  • Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program.
  • Opportunity for equity awards and other compensation.
  • Access to a 401(k) plan for full-time employees.
  • Diverse benefits available, details on company website.
Full Job Description
About the Role

In this role as an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team that constructs the essential systems enabling local businesses to integrate with Uber Eats efficiently and realize immediate value. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners in Product, Design, Analytics, Operations, and ML to establish and execute a strategic roadmap. This strategy will prioritize both the long-term scalability and reliability of the platform alongside rapid enhancements focused on the merchant experience.

What You'll Do:

- Lead a team of backend and fullstack engineers driving end-to-end product deliveries
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics and GTM teams to build and execute the roadmap, ensuring a stable, scalable platform while maintaining rapid delivery of merchant features.
- Oversee the prioritization and delivery of capabilities and architectural improvements to maximize user value and business impact.
- Ensure operational excellence across all areas, including support, on-call, deployments, and incident management.
- Champion and implement engineering best practices across the team

Basic Qualifications

- Strong leadership skills and technical expertise; ability to lead a platform team with deep domain knowledge and solve technical challenges through system design and problem-solving
- Experience with high-scale, backend systems

Preferred Qualifications

- Proven ability to collaborate effectively across different functions and with diverse stakeholders.
- Demonstrated leadership experience in maintaining reliability and extensibility to critical tier1 services
- Unwavering commitment to maintaining high standards for personal contributions, team members, and product outcomes.
- A successful track record of hiring and developing high-performing teams.
- 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
- 2+ years of experience managing engineering teams through technical leads

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$232,000 per year - USD$258,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link [https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits](https://jobs.uber.com/en/benefits).

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.

About Uber

Uber Entertainment, Inc. is a privately held video game development company headquartered in beautiful downtown Kirkland, WA. Uber is currently developing Planetary Annihilation, a next generation real time strategy game of epic proportions.

Uber Careers

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29,300 employees
Market Cap
$48.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$6.7 billion
Founded
2009
5 Year Trend
+35.3%
Revenue
$11.1 billion
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