About the Role

Risk Investigations Tooling (RIT) is a critical part of the Uber Ecosystem to detect and address Risk for our users. The RIT team is focused on building best-in-class products and technology to support all Manual Reviews & Fraud Investigation tools for global teams across Uber. The RIT team is looking for a strong Software Engineer to build business-critical tools and execute on the team’s ambitious and fast-paced mission to centralize all investigations under a super App. The engineer is expected to work in close collaboration with the product and the team to build investigation experiences that power manual investigations. 

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

• Work with Product Managers to understand requirements and deliver technical solutions
• Build Experiences for self-service applications/tools
• Collaborate with operations, UX designers/researchers, engineering teams to develop innovative solutions
• Consider architectural dependencies, relationships, and integration points to ensure proper solution integration with Risk systems when applicable
• Identify and deliver efficiencies for investigation tools and processes
• Commit to the continuous improvement and development of best practices, tools, and technology*   Manage, maintain, and scale investigation tools functionalities
• Write high-quality code and related documentation
• Raise the bar in end-to-end and integration tests
• Participate in On Call and bring efficiencies to On Call   

 ---- Basic Qualifications ----  

• BTech/BS degree in computer science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer and building large-scale distributed systems
• Coding chops, clean, elegant, bug-free code in languages like Java, GO or similar
• Skilled in architecture: Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture - consensus, convergence, data consistency, and performance/efficiency constructs
• Strong desire to learn and grow, while building the best-in-class systems
• Experienced at Cross Team Communication: Strong flair for effective communication and collaboration
• Experience designing and working with systems at scale serving millions of users and high uptimes.
• Demonstrated experience of working with large data volumes
• Managed the design and implementation of complex cross-team projects independently    

---- What the Candidate Will Do ---- 

• Exposure or hand-on experience to backend development
• Working experience to Relational and non-relational databases (like MySQL, Cassandra etc)