Senior Software Engineer - Hyderabad @ Uber

• Actively seek out the engineering and business problems, solve them with little to no guidance.
• Take the larger vision or challenge and break it down into strategies and plans including trade-offs, convergence, and closure across teams required to realize the vision.
• Be a role model on acting with good judgment and responsibility. Engineers across the organization will look to you on how best to plan and execute on projects.
• Raise the bar on sustainable engineering by improving best practices, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing, and monitoring rolling out the next generations of our fintech systems
• Be a humble mentor and trusted advisor for both our talented team members and passionate leaders alike. Deal with differences in opinion in a mature and fair way, helping teams to commit and move forward.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years of experience in professional software development with detailed inside-out knowledge of the general programming languages e.g. Java, Go, C/C++, Python.
• 5+ years of experience in the design and solution of distributed systems operating at Uber s scale (~5k qps and 100m transactions per day)
• Professional software experience on optimal setup and usage of data stores like Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis and MQs like Kafka
• Passion for driving continual improvement initiatives on engineering best practices like coding, testing or monitoring
• Solid technical leadership abilities, and comfortable working with various stakeholders to ensure adoption/impact
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents
• Passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers

What the Candidate Will Do

• Master s or PhD degree in in Computer Science or related field
• Experience working in the Fintech, Payments industry including exposure of projects requiring complex regulatory and compliance.
• Experience working with the big data technologies Hadoop. Hive etc
• Expert and hands-on understanding of fault-tolerant systems and multi-datacenter/cloud architectures