Senior Software Engineer - Earner Incentive

About this role

About the Role


Uber's Marketplace sits at the core of the business. The Earner Incentive team in Marketplace builds large-scale platforms and services that empower drivers through targeted incentives, creating a more balanced, efficient marketplace while improving driver earnings and experience.


The team owns the end-to-end incentive lifecycle, from incentive configuration and generation to high-throughput, low-latency online serving. We build reliable, scalable, and earner-centric platforms and systems that power personalized incentive offers aligned with each earner's preferences and driving patterns. These systems enable proactive, targeted incentives that shape supply, optimize earnings, and support marketplace balance at global scale.


We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale the core services and data pipelines behind Uber's driver incentive platforms. In this role,you will focus on backend and platform system design, service reliability, data consistency, and operational excellence, supporting both scheduled and near real-time incentive workflows across Uber's marketplace.


You will collaborate closely with machine learning engineers, product managers, scientists, and operations partners to set technical direction, reason through trade-offs, and translate complex marketplace requirements into robust, production-ready backend systems. Your work will directly influence how incentives are delivered at scale - improving marketplace efficiency and reliability while enabling earning opportunities for millions of drivers worldwide.


What you will do

• Design, build, productionize, and operate high-performance, scalable, and reliable backend platforms and data pipelines that power driver incentive systems at large scale.
• Develop robust marketplace systems and incentive solutions that improve marketplace efficiency, reliability, and enable earning opportunities for millions of drivers.
• Build deep domai...