**What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points** \-\-\-\- What the Candidate Will Do ---- 1. Actively seek out engineering problems and solve them with little to no guidance. 2. Own opportunities and initiatives and drive clarity, convergence, and closure across stakeholders. 3. Take the requirements and distill it down with the lead into tasks and milestones including trade-offs required to realize the vision. 4. Acting with good judgment and responsibility.. 5. Provide technical expertise in designing, implementing, testing and rolling out the next generations of our fintech systems. 6. Raise the bar on sustainable engineering by improving best practices, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing, and monitoring. 7. Be a humble mentor and trusted advisor for both our talented team members and passionate leaders alike. Deal with differences in opinion in a mature and fair way, helping teams to commit and move forward. \-\-\-\- Basic Qualifications ---- 1. Bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering field (e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, etc.) 2. 2+ years experience designing, implementing large scale distributed systems (serving 5K+ QPS, participating in 100M+ in transactions) 3. Knowledge of multiple programming languages, data store systems, and message queue. We use programming languages like Go, Java, Python, data stores like Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis and MQs like Kafka- Any programming language is fine. 4. Expertise in one or more technology domains and are the "go-to" person for one or more areas of their business. 5. Exposure on building large-scale, highly-available systems that solve complex, organizational level business problems. 6. Hands-on understanding of fault-tolerant systems and multi-datacenter/cloud architectures. 7. Passion for driving continual improvement initiatives on engineering best practices like coding, testing or monitoring. 8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents. \-\-\-\- Preferred Qualifications ---- 1. Built large scale projects with stream processing and batch processing. 2. Implemented complex regulatory compliance projects successfully. 3. Experience working in the Fintech, Payments industry. 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. \*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](mailto:accommodations@uber.com).