Sr Software Engineer, Ads

Sr Software Engineer, Ads Department: Engineering Team: Backend Location: San Francisco, United States Type: Full-Time **About the Role** Ads is one of Uber’s fastest-growing businesses and a key contributor to Uber’s long-term profitability. The Ads Relevance team plays a critical and multifaceted role in optimizing the Uber advertising ecosystem. Our core mission is to meticulously serve high-quality, personalized advertisements to our consumer base. This requires a delicate balance: maximizing the marketplace objective (e.g., matching the right consumer with the right ad at the right time) while diligently preserving and growing advertiser value and return on investment. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team to help grow the Uber Ads business across multiple verticals - Online Food Delivery, GR and Display ads.. You’ll work with teams behind apps used by millions globally every day and be a part of the technical foundations of a new product. **What You'll Do** - Design, implementation, and maintenance of high-performance recommendations and ranking systems. - Build a world class next gen personalized Ads delivery system that optimize Ads Marketplace - Work with Product Managers, Machine Learning engineers, Data Scientists, Business operations and other Ads SMEs - Improve scalability, reliability and efficiency of ads tech stack from retrieval to ranking and serving **Basic Qualifications** - 5+ years of experience in software engineering - AdTech experience is required - Technical strength with experience developing and shipping code for production systems - Strong system design skills. You know how to build highly-scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services that support our unique exponential growth requirements. - Demonstrated experience easily speaking to the operational aspects of monitoring, alerting, and structuring code for production-level debugging. - You have a strong command of a backend stack (eg. Golang, Java, Node.js, Python, etc) **Preferred Qualifications** - Any experience in Retrieval, Ranking, Ads Marketplace, Auction, Quality