About the Role

Uber Web and SEO teams focus on the ecosystem of products that help in driving growth of Uber’s multiple lines of businesses (LoBs) by building, measuring and optimizing traffic across Web surfaces that are built to help Uber’s marketing and acquisition efforts.

Web and SEO teams are deeply invested in building sophisticated engineering to enable authoring of millions of web pages that drive traffic towards use cases such as driver onboarding (Earners focus) or restaurant discovery (Eats focus) etc. Platforms to build and experiment at scale with hundreds of Web Pages is also a core part of capabilities created.

Additionally - SEO wing of this charter focuses on creating near real time reporting capabilities to measure impacts of tuning Web pages to constantly rank higher than its competition that enables businesses to take informed decisions using deep insights of the Web traffic & performance.

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

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

The role is strategic to Uber’s Growth and Marketing team as this would enable it to position the web as a safe channel for driving Web traffic to Uber Eats which in-turn would enable product discovery, funnel conversion & marketplace expansion.

The role would entail strong partnership with product and business teams in the United States to drive deeply collaborated initiatives, build frameworks and solutions that would apply to engineering teams in multiple LoBs, DS/AS and marketeers in distributed markets.

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. Experience : Minimum 6+ years of experience as a manager and overall 12+ years of industry experience in a variety of contexts. Prior experience building scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant systems.
2. Ability to contribute, influence and drive Web/SEO/Measurement platform Initiatives that can serve multiple product lines using multi-tenant architectures and microservices principles.
3. Sound understanding of building full stack solutions with Web in forefront at scale: front-end, back-end, databases, caches, network protocols, etc. Prior experience with big data technologies is an added advantage.
4. Comfort at jamming on complex architecture and design principles with senior engineers.
5. Bias for action: Belief 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 : Track record of ability to team up for success through mentoring, coaching, and reviewing. Ability to help other engineers make sound architectural decisions, improve their code quality, and get out of their comfort zone.
7. Commitment : Demonstrate tremendously about keeping the Uber experience consistent for users and strive to make any issues invisible to users. You hold yourself personally accountable, jumping in and taking ownership of problems that might not even be in your team’s scope.
8. Hiring know-how : 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.
9. Strategic mindset: You're comfortable thinking a few steps ahead of where the team is at now. Building proactive partnership with product and business to constantly evolve the vision and direction of Web Growth and Products.

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Providing leadership and manage the team that would build and develop the Web authoring & core system and which will impact overall Growth and Marketing platform
2. Engineering Quality and efficiency of the Web Frontend / Backend systems that power Rider products and tools.
3. Collaborating with multiple Uber teams to build the bridge between business stakeholders, executive leaders and senior engineers.
4. Lead and grow a strong engineering team responsible for the next generation architecture for Uber Web

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.