About the Role
As an Engineering Manager at Uber, you will lead a team of engineers and engineering managers in the development of global solutions, collaborating closely with product managers, data scientists, and other engineering teams.
This role, within the Bangalore-based Payments organization (Disbursements Processing), entails leading, mentoring, and managing a high-performing, diverse team. This organization aims to leverage Payments as a competitive advantage by optimizing the paying and payment processes for both users and the business.
The Disbursements Processing team manages global earner payouts, encompassing the following responsibilities:
- Collaboration with over 20+ global external partners to facilitate worldwide earner payments.
- Ensuring a reliable and consistent payout experience.
- Developing and managing a scalable engineering platform with continuous enhancements.
- Guaranteeing reliable weekly payments for 10 million earners globally.
---- What the Candidate Will Do ----
Lead a 10-person engineering team and be responsible for:
- Ideating, developing, and delivering payment product platforms.
- Operational and engineering excellence initiatives.
- Career growth within the organization by developing Staff-level individual contributors.
- Creating organizational and cross-organizational impact by designing, iterating on, and delivering processes that support Uber engineering.
- Partnering with diverse roles and individuals across various disciplines such as product management, talent acquisition, data science, and product design, spanning from fresh graduates to experienced professionals.
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- Experience in engineering management (4+ years), demonstrating the ability to manage a larger team
- Skilled in guiding, mentoring, and coaching technically proficient teams, leveraging technical expertise and analytical abilities. Able to architect and design robust, high-scale systems, encouraging engineers to think broadly and generically in their solutions.
- Knowledgeable in large-scale distributed systems, SQL/NoSQL storage, cloud services (AWS, GCP, OCI), transactional updates, asynchronous processing (Kafka), logging, monitoring, observability, and performance tuning.
- Experienced in working with globally distributed, cross-functional teams, coordinating efforts to deliver multi-area solutions.
- Proficient in cross-functional collaboration, influencing PMs, designers, data scientists, and upstream business/infrastructure teams to identify, prioritize, and solve problems.
- Proven ability to grow teams, recruit/retain strong engineering leaders, and manage performance.
- Familiar with client-side architecture for large native mobile and web platform teams, covering dependency management, feature flagging, UI trade-offs, and funnel design.
- Adaptable to a strong, reliability-focused engineering culture while prioritizing business stakeholder value. Possesses self-learning capabilities, strong time management for scaling, precise communication, and strong collaborative traits.
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- Experience with payments, including understanding global and regional nuances.
- Proven ability to execute complex initiatives, delivering resilient, high-performing systems on time and meeting business goals and user needs.
- Background in product experimentation, including statistical knowledge, experimentation mechanics, and analysis skills to interpret, debug, and challenge experimental results.
About Us
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This isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook — it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves — we'd love to hear from you.
You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.
Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of engineering management experience, including managing larger teams
- Ability to guide, mentor, and coach technically proficient engineering teams
- Technical expertise in architecting and designing robust, high-scale systems
- Knowledge of large-scale distributed systems
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL storage
- Knowledge of cloud services including AWS, GCP, or OCI
- Knowledge of transactional updates and asynchronous processing, including Kafka
- Knowledge of logging, monitoring, observability, and performance tuning
- Experience working with globally distributed, cross-functional teams
- Ability to influence product managers, designers, data scientists, and business or infrastructure teams
- Ability to grow teams, recruit and retain engineering leaders, and manage performance
- Familiarity with client-side architecture for large native mobile and web platforms
- Ability to work in a reliability-focused engineering culture and manage priorities effectively
- Experience with payments and global or regional payment nuances
- Ability to execute complex initiatives and deliver resilient, high-performing systems on time
- Product experimentation experience, including statistical knowledge and experiment analysis
Uber Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Uber and has not been reviewed or approved by Uber.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies provide a minimum of fully paid parental leave for all parents and financial support for fertility, adoption, and surrogacy, with added credits to ease the transition. Programs extend to family medical leave and parenting support resources, indicating depth beyond baseline offerings.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive across many countries, with medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and mental health benefits, plus allowances where direct plans are not available. Wellness programs and reimbursements further reinforce access to care.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Monthly ride and meal credits, free office meals/snacks, fitness stipends, onsite gyms, and wellbeing reimbursements create meaningful everyday value. Home‑office stipends, travel medical coverage, and counseling support round out lifestyle-oriented perks.
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What We Do
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Why Work With Us
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.
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