Team : Payment Compliance
Role : Senior Software Engineer II
Payment Compliance org works to ensure that any money movement on Uber platform is compliant with the laws of the land where Uber is operating. Since we operate in the financial domain, this means that we need to be 100% reliable compliant and deliver capabilities which can be scaled globally.
A few of the challenges that our team solves on a daily basis include ensuring that any new partners who onboards onto the platform are compliant to their respective region. The compliance scale should be on par with the money movement on Uber, which is really huge.
We do not allow any money laundering to happen on the Uber platform.Payment compliance needs to work with multiple teams inside Uber to make this happen and example would be to verify user data before spending. This includes asking Users to validate their personal information before spend. In addition we work with multiple third party vendors, agencies to ensure no sanctioned entity is allowed on Uber's platform.
In terms of scale, every partner coming online and every payment disbursement call across the world needs to go through our systems to ensure compliance.
About the Role :

Sr Engineers at Uber have a deep impact across a wide variety of business and technology decisions spanning multiple projects. They are passionate and pragmatic technologists who are able to design, implement, and deliver scalable and resilient systems. They are not only role models, but also approachable thought-leaders, collaborators, and mentors to engineers. They are humble teachers, technically mentoring a team of hardworking engineers while also executing on delivering uniquely exciting projects.
We are looking for someone with a passion for architecting and building highly scalable & highly-available, critical systems that support millions of users during their payment experience every day. Our systems ensure accurate, compliant and on-time payouts to our partners and seamless payment experience for our users along with providing a choice of payment methods (global and local).
This is a unique opportunity for a highly hardworking engineer who is collaborative, has a healthy sense of curiosity and acts with responsibility to join Uber, work with hardworking people across the board and help improve our next generation payments systems, scaling it to the next level. This is a very high impact role where you will collaborate with all major infrastructure & platform teams at Uber.
Does this sound exciting to you? Are you a tested standout colleague, strategic problem solver, and executor? We want to hear from you.
What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points
• Technical Competency: Demonstrates and applies broad, in-depth knowledge to build and maintain backend services and solutions to support user-facing products, downstream services, or infrastructure tools and platforms used across Uber, which could include developing and maintaining large-scale multi-tenant services and/or customized solutions based on existing backend infrastructure; monitoring on-prem or cloud-hosted software and infrastructure operations and detecting outages/issues in network or server environments; identifying, analyzing, and resolving system availability, reliability, and performance issues. Serves as a technical resource and expert across teams on industry standards and best practices to solve complex problems. Improves and leads the adoption of Uber technical and industry standards across teams.
• Coding: Writes high-quality code (i.e., reliable, readable, efficient, testable), provides quality code reviews, and creates comprehensive tests and quality documentation to solve strategically important problems. This includes knowledge of data structures, algorithms, programming and associated programming languages and frameworks, and major phases/activities of the software research and development life cycle (e.g., requirements, design, build, experiment, test, debug, deploy, monitor). Directs and executes the resolution of complex technical problems across teams according to standards and best practices.
• Design & Architecture: Leads cross-team efforts to learn requirements and consolidate and translate vaguely defined business or technical problems into executable and extensible designs. Anticipates business needs and develops designs that meet current needs and can be extended for future needs. Identifies and solves architectural gaps and reduces technical debt across teams.
• Efficiency & Being a Force Multiplier: Creates and promotes efficiency and speed across teams by leveraging and improving existing solutions, developing extensible solutions, and reconciling gaps and redundancy across teams. Identifies opportunities and advocates for better performance and efficiency of software, systems, processes across teams.
• Operational Execution: Leads long-term technical projects and solutions with drive and appropriate sense of urgency to deliver technical and business impact across teams. Plans, organizes, and manages tasks, resources, and timelines across teams to accomplish work accurately and on time. Defines and diagnoses significant problems and determines an appropriate solution, recommendation, or decision while logically evaluating alternatives and factors (e.g., resources, costs, tradeoffs). Anticipates risks and develops mitigation strategies, assigning ownership of components of solutions to other engineers or groups of engineers.
• Collaboration: Encourages and promotes ideas/opinions of others from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Identifies, builds, and leverages strategic, collaborative, and trusting relationships across teams. Recognizes conflict or disputes among people and situations; holds self and others accountable for actively seeking out, sharing and incorporating diverse points of view to align teams on shared goals.
• Citizenship: Enhances the effective functioning of Uber by participating in and promoting activities and efforts that contribute to the engineering and/or people culture across teams such as proactively mentoring and teaching junior engineers. Represents multiple teams to the broader community through participation in internally- and/or externally-focused engagements (e.g., tech talks, open source, conferences, team building).
Qualifications/Skillsets :
• Bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering field (e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, etc.)• 10+ years experience designing, implementing large scale distributed systems (serving 5K+ QPS, participating in 100M+ in transactions)• Advanced, inside-out 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.• Deep, industry leading expertise in one or more technology domains and are the "go-to" person for one or more areas of their business.• A track record of building large-scale, highly-available systems that solve complex, organizational level business problems.• Expert and hands-on understanding of fault-tolerant systems and multi-datacenter/cloud architectures.• Passion for driving continual improvement initiatives on engineering standard methodologies like coding, testing or monitoring.• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents.• Passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers.
At Uber, we reimagine the way the world moves for the better. The idea was born on a snowy night in Paris in 2008, and ever since then, our DNA of reimagination and reinvention carries on. We've grown into a global platform moving people and things in ever-expanding ways, taking on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters make movement happen at the push of a button for everyone, everywhere.
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.