Sr. Engineering Manager - Grocery Fulfillment & Optimization

  • San Francisco, CA
  • Posted 5 hours ago | Updated 5 hours ago

Overview

On Site
USD 257,000.00 - 285,500.00 per year
Full Time

Skills

Product Strategy
Management
Roadmaps
Lean Methodology
Decision-making
Quality Assurance
Operational Excellence
Software Engineering
Optimization
Data Science
Machine Learning (ML)
Communication
Analytical Skill
Articulate
Pricing
Electronic Commerce
Law
Legal
Collaboration

Job Details

About the Role:

Grocery is Uber's newest and fast growing business line, delighting customers with next-hour delivery of household essentials from their favorite local stores. The Grocery Fulfillment team is focused on building best-in-class products and technology to support consumers and shoppers in fulfilling grocery orders correctly and efficiently.

The Grocery Fulfillment team is looking for a strong engineering leader to execute on the team's ambitious and fast-paced product strategy. This is a very important and visible role with a potential for significant impact on the fast growing grocery business. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead an area focused on optimizing grocery fulfillment in close collaboration with product and data science teams within and outside the organization, including Marketplace, Courier and Pricing teams. This role will oversee both product experience and optimization problem areas. 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.

What the Candidate Will Do:

- Lead a product area to deliver best in class shopping and optimization tools
- Work with stakeholders and multi-functional teams to lead planning and execution through a full product cycle
- Partner with engineering teams, help see opportunities, gather requirements, and help shape the technology roadmap and vision for the team
- Lean on technical experience to facilitate technical decision making and raise the bar on the team's engineering craft
- Hire high-quality engineering talent, lead and develop your team
- Develop an operational model to achieve operational excellence for engineering and product metrics

Basic Qualifications:

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ 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 or optimization 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:

- 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, e-commerce, fullfillment or complex backend systems.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$257,000 per year - USD$285,500 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$257,000 per year - USD$285,500 per year.

For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link [](;br>
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