UI Engineering Manager II
Uber
**About the Role**
At Uber, our mission is to help people go anywhere and get anything. A lot of this functionality is powered by search, storage and data platforms. This UI team is developing user interfaces for these search, storage and data platforms, which are being used by developers, analysts to make important product decisions.
As an Engineering Manager, you will be tasked with shaping the future direction for the user interfaces for the above platforms. This will require understanding the need and pain points of the different user personas and growing the team to tackle the ever-increasing problem space. You will need to collaborate with peers in other distributed sites to build and align on a long and medium-term charter and ensure unhindered execution.
**What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points**
\-\-\-\- What the Candidate Will Do ----
1. Providing technical leadership to build and develop the Self Serve Search, Storage and Data platforms.
2. Ensure engineering quality and efficiency of the above tools.
3. Collaborating and being the bridge between Uber’s teams in SF and Bengaluru.
4. Lead and grow a strong engineering team.
\-\-\-\- Basic Qualifications ----
1. Experience. Minimum 2+ years of experience as a manager and overall 10+ years of industry experience in a variety of contexts, during which you’ve built scalable, robust, and performant web platforms.
2. Ability to contribute, influence and drive full-stack tech initiatives using multi-tenant architectures.
3. You are comfortable jamming on complex architecture and design principles with senior engineers.
4. You have experience in architecting large scale frontend applications with good understanding of web technologies (HTML5, CSS, Javascript, TypeScript), and JavaScript development frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue, Bootstrap, etc)
5. Bias for action. You believe that speed and quality aren’t mutually exclusive. You’ve shown good judgment about shipping as fast as possible while still making sure that products are built in a sustainable, responsible way.
6. Mentorship/ Guidance. You know that the most important part of your job is setting the team up for success. Through mentoring, coaching, and reviewing, you help other engineers make sound architectural decisions, improve their code quality, and get out of their comfort zone.
7. Hiring know-how. You’re a thoughtful interviewer who constantly raises the bar for excellence. You believe that what seems amazing one day becomes the norm the next day, and that each new hire should significantly improve the team. You can articulate the team’s challenges and growth opportunities to a potential candidate.
\-\-\-\- Preferred Qualifications ----
1. Experience in Enterprise Platform orgs who've worked on dev tooling, and extensions.
2. You have a solid understanding of the whole web stack: front-end, back-end, api design, micro-service architecture, databases, caches, network protocols, etc.
3. Strategic mindset. You're comfortable thinking a few steps ahead of where the team is at now.
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.
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](mailto:accommodations@uber.com).
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