Manager II, Engineering

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.

---- Basic Qualifications ----

• 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.

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

• 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.