Engineering Leader, Tax & Compliance Technology

Tax & Compliance Technology builds core technology for Uber’s Tax compliance worldwide. These include services for Tax calculation, Tax Invoicing, E-Invoicing, Receipts and Tax reporting for our partners/earners worldwide. This requires building and operating large scale services (trip scale), simple web and mobile user experiences, Automation of financial business process, ensuring accuracy, audit controls and completeness of data for financial and operational reporting and analysis.

What You’ll Do :

As an Engineering leader at Uber you will have a profound impact on a wide variety of technology teams spanning multiple focus areas. We are looking for an experienced leader who possesses top class leadership experience in building and scaling impactful teams who are responsible for critical, reliable services. You will typically manage through leaders, and build partnerships with key business leaders and product management. You will be responsible for the business critical impacts delivered.

• Drive vision & strategy for the Tax and Compliance services. Drive simplification using a combination of integration with 3P products and building internally.
• You will work with your team to build systems that stress scalability, accuracy, completeness, robustness, and auditability.
• You must be a technical manager who can drive the architectural details of projects and the technical roadmap of the team.
• Build and lead teams of experienced managers and senior engineers of over 60 people
• Influence, collaborate and communicate effectively with partners across the Finance organization
• Drive engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

What You’ll Need :

• BS degree in Computer Science or related engineering field.
• Experience building innovative and complex software for at least 10+ years.
• Proven record of innovation and thought leadership
• Experience delivering highly available, reliable, near zero defect software
• Strong people management skills including hiring, growing and mentoring managers, leaders, and engineers.
• Ability to build a strong culture aligned with our Uber Values.
• Experience evolving and presenting a strong vision/roadmap for your team
• Passion about your team’s mission and the self-starting personality to make things happen
• A track record of delivering results even when requirements are under-specified
• A strong partner who can simplify complex technical concepts and effectively collaborate. Ability to influence leadership and other partners throughout the business
• Solid programming skills in Java, Go, Python, Android, IOS, or similar.
• Ability to drive continuous improvements to the business processes
• Attention to detail, excellent judgment and high standards

Bonus Points If

• Any knowledge of Oracle ERP or any other Financial systems is a plus

Uber is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Uber is committed to an inclusive and accessible work environment.