The Financial Products team is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Backend) to join our high-velocity growth group. Our mission is to architect and scale Uber’s next generation of financial services.
As a leader within one of the company’s core strategic initiatives, you will be responsible for launching high-impact projects that redefine Uber's ecosystem. Your work will directly influence the company’s bottom line and shape how millions of users interact with our financial offerings.
What You’ll Do-
Architect & Innovate: Partner with Product, Design, and Business leadership to translate ambitious product visions into scalable, high-concurrency backend solutions.
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Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical authority for the team, steering architectural choices, overseeing rigorous code reviews, and ensuring system reliability.
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Engineering Excellence: Champion and implement industry-best practices for code health, automated testing, and long-term maintainability.
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Scale Systems: Build and optimize frameworks that support Uber's global scale, ensuring financial transactions remain seamless and secure.
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Education: Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
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Experience: 10+ years of professional full-time software engineering experience.
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Technical Proficiency: Strong expertise in modern backend languages—specifically Go, Java, or C++.
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Advanced Degree: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
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Distributed Systems: Proven track record of designing, building, and maintaining high-scale, resilient distributed systems.
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Domain Expertise: Prior experience building mission-critical financial services software (e.g., payments, lending, credit cards, or trading platforms).
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Mentorship: Experience leading senior engineering teams and fostering a culture of technical rigor and rapid delivery.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $267,000 per year - USD $297,000 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.
About UsReady to Ride?
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
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
- 10+ years of professional full-time software engineering experience
- Strong expertise in Go, Java, or C++
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining high-scale, resilient distributed systems
- Experience building mission-critical financial services software, such as payments, lending, credit cards, or trading platforms
- Experience leading senior engineering teams and fostering technical rigor and rapid delivery
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.
Uber Insights
What We Do
We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything. Movement is what we do. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real-time. At the incredible speed of now.
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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