The Uber Home Experience team is shaping the future of how users engage with Uber's flagship app. As a Backend Engineer, you'll play a key role in building the intelligent, personalized systems that power the Uber home screen - the place where millions of users begin their journey with Uber every day. Our mission is to make the home screen more dynamic, contextual, and action-oriented - helping customers seamlessly move between rides, eats, grocery, and more. Whether a rider is planning their next trip or exploring new offerings, we aim to create a unified, personalized experience that anticipates their needs and makes Uber feel like one cohesive platform.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend development using modern programming languages (e.g., Go, Java or similar).
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and API design.
- Experience with scalable data systems, caching, and performance optimization.
- Experience working with large-scale personalization, ranking, or recommendation systems.
- Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure.
- Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Proven experience with distributed data systems (e.g., Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, Flink, Spark).
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems that power the dynamic Uber home screen experience.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams - including mobile, data, design, and product - to define, architect, and deliver end-to-end experiences.
- Develop APIs and backend services that enable experimentation, personalization, and real-time recommendations.
- Partner with platform teams to improve system performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Contribute to the long-term technical vision for how Uber surfaces its diverse product lines to users in a cohesive and intelligent way.
- Influence product direction by contributing technical insight to roadmap discussions.
Other
- Bachelors (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Passion for creating elegant technical solutions that improve user experience through intelligence and personalization.
- Solid grasp of software engineering best practices: testing, code review, CI/CD, and observability.
- A mindset that embraces experimentation, learning, and collaboration across multiple Uber product lines.
- The base salary range for this role is USD$198,000 per year - USD$220,000 per year.
