Senior Software Engineer

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

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

1. Solid experience building reliable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and fundamentals - consensus, convergence, load balancing, data consistency and performance/efficiency constructs
2. Strong desire to learn and grow, while building the best in class systems and a strong feeling of ownership coupled with collaboration
3. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents.
4. An ability to have fun while working on the hardest problems
5. Prior work experience in the Finance domain is a bonus

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. MS/BS in Computer science and at least 7+ years of individual contributor experience as a software engineer
2. Experience with Java, Go, C, or C++ (bonus points for more than one).
3. Detailed problem-solving approach and knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis.

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues
2. Passion for driving continual improvement initiatives on engineering best practices like coding, testing, or monitoring.
3. Optimize your code and improve the bar within the team
4. Actively seek out the toughest technology and engineering problems and solve them with little to no guidance.
5. Own large opportunities and initiatives and drive clarity, convergence, and closure across teams.
6. Take the larger vision or challenge and distill it down with the leadership team into strategies and plans including trade-offs required to realize the vision.
7. Be a role model in acting with good judgment and responsibility. Engineers across the organization will look to you on how best to plan and execute projects.
8. Provide technical leadership and vision in designing, implementing, testing, and rolling out the next generations of our FinTech systems.
9. Raise the bar on sustainable engineering by producing best-in-class code, documentation, testing, and monitoring.
10. Be a humble mentor and trusted advisor for both your team members and passionate leaders alike. Tackle differences in opinion maturely and fairly, helping teams to contribute and move forward.

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.

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