Software Engineer II, User Targeting
About The Position
Braze is hiring a Software Engineer II to join its User Targeting team, which builds and maintains the systems customers use to segment and target users. The team’s pipelines process billions of users per day and support a core part of the Braze product. This is a fast-paced, customer-focused engineering role involving a complex, high-scale segmentation system. The engineer will build and own features across a Ruby on Rails backend and React frontend, taking work from design review through production rollout. The role includes leading medium-sized projects, tuning data queries, improving performance and cost, and collaborating with product managers, designers, and other engineers. Team members write automated tests, review code, and participate in an on-call rotation. The team uses AI-assisted and agentic tools throughout product delivery to explore its Ruby monolith, develop proofs of concept, and move from requirements to working solutions.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of professional experience building and shipping web applications in full-stack development or backend services.
- Solid understanding of software design, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience with SQL and at least one production database.
- Ability to clarify ambiguous feature requests and deliver working, tested code with limited oversight.
- Strong communication and organizational skills, and a record of thriving in team environments.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, React, Sidekiq, and SQL or NoSQL databases.
- Experience with MongoDB, ClickHouse, Snowflake, or other data lake solutions.
- Experience working on a high-scale, high-throughput system.
- Passion for customer experience.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement features across the Ruby on Rails backend and React frontend, from design review through production rollout.
- Own medium-sized projects by breaking down work, setting delivery dates, and meeting them.
- Write and tune queries against MongoDB and ClickHouse, and learn how segmentation performance and cost change with data volume.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to clarify requirements and deliver customer-focused features.
- Write thorough automated tests, review teammates’ code, and participate in the on-call rotation to maintain system stability and quality.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation that may include equity.
- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefit plans.
- Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave.
- Professional development through formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend.
- Curated in-office employee experience designed to foster community, team connections, and innovation.
- Opportunities to give back through an annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching.
- Employee Resource Groups.
- Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
