About the Role

We are building the next generation of payment compliance infrastructure that powers how millions of users get compliant.

Payment Compliance sits at the core of the onboarding, ongoing and payment disbursement lifecycles and determines when users can go online and get paid.

As the Engineering Manager II on the Payment Compliance platform team, you will lead a team responsible for building the foundational systems that power enhance due diligence, risk rating, workflow orchestration, decisioning, ML based doc transcription and optimising manual case adjudication systems. These systems are tier-1 mission-critical infrastructure used across onboarding and ongoing lifecycles of all type of Uber users.

This is a hybrid role focused on building scalable, reliable, and evolvable payment compliance systems in close partnership with DE, DS, and Product teams while shaping UX to deliver the best possible experience to our users.

You will be responsible for growing and leading a high-performing engineering team, defining technical strategy, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of payment compliance infrastructure used across the organization.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

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

Technical Leadership & Strategy

1. Own the technical strategy and roadmap for payment compliance platform
2. Ensure systems are scalable, reliable, observable, and performant at large scale
3. Drive architectural clarity across various layers and stakeholder teams
4. Partner with DE and Data Science teams to enable rapid experimentation and model iteration

Team Leadership & Development

1. Hire, grow, and develop a team of talented engineers, including senior and staff-level engineers
2. Provide technical guidance, coaching, and career development support
3. Establish clear ownership, operational excellence, and strong engineering fundamentals
4. Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement

Cross-Functional Collaboration

1. Partner closely with DE, DS, Product, and Platform teams
2. Enable DS/DE teams to iterate faster by building robust experimentation, logging, and model integration infrastructure
3. Align technical roadmaps across multiple teams and organizational boundaries
4. Drive clarity around ownership, interfaces, and system responsibilities

Execution & Operational Excellence

1. Deliver high-impact infrastructure that improves product relevance and user experience
2. Improve system reliability, latency, observability, and debugability
3. Establish strong engineering processes around design reviews, operational readiness, and incident response
4. Ensure the team executes effectively against both foundational investments and product-enabling work

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. 8+ years of software engineering experience
2. 5+ years of engineering management experience
3. Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale
4. Experience leading projects involving backend systems, infrastructure, or platform development
5. Strong technical background in system architecture and backend engineering
6. Experience hiring, developing, and managing engineers

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Experience building payments, risk-rating, or compliance systems
2. Experience working closely with Machine Learning or Data Science teams
3. Experience building platform or infrastructure teams
4. Experience building high-scale backend systems serving large user bases
5. Experience improving system reliability, performance, and observability
6. Experience defining technical strategy and long-term architectural direction
7. Experience managing senior or staff-level engineers

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - let’s move it 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.