Engineering Manager II, Catalogue Platform

About The Role

Whether it's a sandwich, a burrito, or groceries, the Uber Eats team builds technology to connect people with what they want, when and where they want it. The Eats Engineering team in Denmark is responsible for building the product catalog and inventory system that powers the Uber Eats experience and related verticals, such as groceries. This is one of the foundational components of the Eats architecture, as it interfaces with merchants, powers our local graph, and serves recommendations to our customers. The system is designed to be highly-available and highly-scalable to support our global operation.

What You'll Do

• Work with cross-functional stakeholders to determine product roadmap that aligns with the broader company vision
• Be responsible for roadmap execution and delivery of projects with high quality
• Grow, coach, and develop a team of software engineers
• Recruit high-quality engineering talent for the team
• Help define the engineering culture and uphold the processes that will shape the future of the team
• Help define the future of local commerce as Eats expands beyond food delivery.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 3 years experience minimum with direct people management, including growing and mentoring junior and senior engineers
• Customer-focused and experience working on a product team, shipping products to end-users
• Significant experience building and operating critical high-scale systems
• Phenomenal management and team development skills: ability to set roadmap and goals for a team and every one of its members, delegate intelligently, mentor engineers, deliver frequent and transparent feedback, help team members grow in their careers, and deliver results
• Expertise and curiosity about growing teams: interviewing junior and senior engineers, collaborating with a recruiting team, efficiently onboarding new team members
• Good software engineering methodology: meaningful and deeply-rooted opinions about testing and code quality, ability to make sound quality/speed trade-offs
• Outstanding technical skills in backend engineering: Uber managers can lead from the front when the situation calls for it
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with e-commerce, grocery, or catalog
• Experience in integration with third-party APIs and develop high-quality external APIs
• Proficient with AB testing and experimentation.
• Have proven track record working across an organization not just across teams.