Schedule: FT
Job Type: Hybrid/On-site/Remote
Salary Type: Salary/Hourly
Req #: 1906
About The Role
The Uber Freight engineering team is looking for a strong engineering leader to execute the team’s ambitious and fast-paced product strategy. In this role, the leader will lead distributed teams and will be responsible for end-to-end brokerage experience and efficiency. For an engineering leader with strong execution muscle, technical depth, and business/product sense, this will be an excellent opportunity to learn, succeed and grow at Uber Freight.
What The Candidate Will Do
- Lead all aspects of design development for multiple teams that incorporate current short- and long-term needs
- Build new technical solutions that will handle the future expected scale and create a technical roadmap for new product features that will shape the experience for our earners
- Direct efforts within the organization to understand requirements, consolidate them, translate them into strategically important business needs, and deliver extensible designs
- You will be developing scalable micro-services and partner with Product Managers & Data Scientists to deliver solutions
- Define standards in testing, monitoring, and alerting systems and lead the efforts of the organization to execute against them Identify and advocate for strategic investments in extensible solutions within organization and create extensible solutions that are capable of reuse or integration to avoid redundant development
- Serve as a resource for the team to connect them with broader engineering directions and initiatives
- Scale up initiatives quickly, by assigning appropriate resources to various tasks and sub-tasks, and facilitating rapid movement towards the end-goal
- Set the standard for the engineering team and shape the culture within the organization
- Manage and mentor a team of software engineers, looking out for their career progression and skills development
Basic Qualifications
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years as an engineering manager and people leader
- Experience executing against high-stakes business goals and extensive engineering priorities.
- Experience partnering across functions and organizational boundaries to effectively advocate for team, business, and company priorities.
- Experience with analytical problem spaces and strong collaboration with data science and machine learning functions.
- A strong ability to shepherd the design and implementation of robust, high-scale systems and to challenge engineers to develop extensible and reusable solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Good Understanding of AI technologies and their adoption in driving efficiencies and across the organization.
- A strong business sense and ability to challenge and partner with product managers and business stakeholders.
- A track record of delivering results in fast-paced and highly ambiguous environments.
- Excellent communication and analytical ability to understand the business value of engineering decisions and articulate a narrative about their importance.
- Experience in marketplace, pricing, fulfillment or complex backend systems
About Uber Freight
Uber Freight is a market-leading enterprise technology company powering intelligent logistics. With a suite of end-to-end logistics applications, managed services and an expansive carrier network, Uber Freight advances supply chains and moves the world’s goods. Today, the company manages nearly $20B of freight and one of the largest networks of carriers. It is backed by best-in-class investors and provides services for 1 in 3 Fortune 500 companies, including Del Monte Foods, Nestle, Anheuser-Busch InBev, and more. For more, visit www.uberfreight.com.
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EEOC
Uber Freight is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards 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.
