About the Role

The Tax Calculations Engineering team operates at the epicenter of global commerce, serving as the architectural backbone and real-time financial control plane for Uber's multi-billion dollar platform. This is a mission-critical domain: our systems sit on the absolute critical path of every transaction—from a ride to a food delivery—and are responsible for accurately calculating and reconciling billions of tax liabilities worldwide. Failure here results in severe financial risk and exposure to major tax regulation penalties.

We are looking for a visionary Staff Engineer to define the technical strategy and execution roadmap for this complex, high-stakes infrastructure, ensuring financial accuracy and maximizing user experience across diverse global regulatory regions.

The Engineering Challenge & Stack

Our charter involves architecting next-generation solutions driven by intricate policy and complex business logic. You will contribute to and lead the development of a sophisticated, fault-tolerant stack that enables precise, real-time tax calculations, including:

1. Global Tax Rule Engine: Designing the core platform for Tax Rule Policy Evaluation & Decisioning to accurately interpret and apply complex tax laws across diverse jurisdictions at massive transaction scale.
2. Financial Workflow Orchestration: Building high-volume, real-time workflows for calculating, posting, and reporting tax liabilities and deductions.
3. High-Precision Calculation Services: Implementing highly concurrent, fault-tolerant APIs that calculate taxes for every Uber transaction globally with sub-millisecond precision
4. Tax Reconciliation Platforms: Developing tools for complex financial reconciliation, audit trail generation, and the resolution of tax-related disputes.
5. External Financial Integrations: Managing connections with essential third-party systems for tax data exchange and statutory submissions.

Furthermore, you will collaborate with multiple lines of business teams to influence and improve the end-user experience, ensuring tax calculation and reporting is accurate and seamless for every entity.

What the Candidate Will Do :

1. Lead the design and architecture of a high-performance global tax calculation infrastructure, prioritizing scalability, reliability, accuracy, and efficiency.
2. Spearhead research and lead projects utilizing Machine Learning and AI to enable next-generation capabilities.
3. Develop and implement state-of-the-art process workflow orchestrations, decisioning logic, and reconciliation algorithms that enhance our global tax infrastructure offerings.
4. Collaborate extensively with several cross-functional teams (Product, Finance, Legal) to define complex requirements and translate them into robust technical specifications.
5. Devise and implement highly scalable solutions that seamlessly scale with our rapidly expanding global user base.
6. Mentor junior engineers to foster a culture of knowledge exchange and continuous improvement.

Basic Qualifications

1. BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
2. Highly proficient in one of the following programming languages: Golang, Java, C/C++.
3. A systematic, deep problem-solving approach and expert knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis.
4. Proven experience building robust observability and metrics systems.

Preferred Qualifications

1. 10+ years of experience building and managing distributed systems.
2. Extensive experience with highly available and fault-tolerant systems on a critical path.
3. Sound, practical understanding of distributed system fundamentals.
4. Exposure to or prior experience with Machine Learning & AI projects is highly valued.
5. Prior experience in the FinTech or Tax domain is a significant plus.

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