Software Engineer II - Personalization Marketing

Software Engineer II - Personalization (Growth & Marketing)

The Growth & Marketing organization sits at the intersection of infrastructure, intelligence, and user engagement-building platforms that power over 10 billion personalized and timely communications each month across Uber's global user base. We solve the critical challenge of moving beyond "one-size-fits-all" marketing by generating billions of personalized messages each month, covering key moments in the user journey across all of Uber's lines of business.

• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services for large-scale recommendation systems, including candidate generation, real-time content ranking and guardrailing.
• Partner with Applied Scientists to product ionize and iterate on ML models that improve the relevance and quality of personalized content for millions of users.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Marketing teams to ship features that have a direct impact on user engagement and business growth.
• Write clean, maintainable code and participate in design reviews, code reviews, and incident responses.

• 3+ years of experience in backend or platform software engineering.
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (e.g., Go, Java).
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, OOP).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience designing or operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with building or working on recommendation systems or personalization.
• Familiarity with machine learning lifecycle, including feature engineering, A/B testing and deploying models to production.
• Experience with real-time data processing and event-driven architectures.
• Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and performance tuning skills.

For Seattle, WA-based roles:
The base salary range for this role is USD $167,000 per year - USD $185,500 per year. 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