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Machine Learning Engineer - Recommendations & Personalization

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Our Journey

The ShopBack Group is Asia-Pacific’s leading shopping, rewards, and payments platform, serving over 20 million active members across 13 markets. In 2025, the Group continued its global growth with its expansion into North America. Driven by the vision to make every day more rewarding, ShopBack is dedicated to saving members money and time, and delivering delight every day. The platform also enables merchants and brands to engage with their members in a cost-effective manner. Founded in 2014, ShopBack now powers over US$5.5 billion in annual sales for over 20,000 online and in-store partners, and has rewarded shoppers with more than US$900 million (over S$1 billion) in Cashback to date. Through its innovative offerings, ShopBack continues to create value for both members and merchants. Notably, its payment solution, ShopBack Pay, offers members a convenient and rewarding payment option at checkout.

Your Adventure Ahead

  • Own recommendation and personalization end-to-end: Build and iterate the ML systems behind ShopBack's personalized shopping experience, recommendations, ranking, user modeling, and CRM intelligence. Own the change end-to-end — dataset, training, offline eval, A/B, rollout — and be measured on offline and online metrics.
  • Blend classic ML with modern LLM techniques: Apply fine-tuned open-source models, embedding models, and LLM-based models where they beat classic methods, and know when they don't.
  • Ship with evidence: Build evaluation sets and experiment harnesses before shipping models; foster a fast-paced, high-iteration experimentation culture (A/B, interleaving, causal reads).
  • Raise the team: Mentor our ML engineers on modern recommendation and LLM practice; your success includes the team's growth, not just your own output.
  • Metrics driven: Understand the business and product metrics behind personalization, and drive efforts that move them.
  • Handle ambiguity: Navigate loosely defined problems effectively, with or without dedicated Product Manager support.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with product, ops, and CRM stakeholders to set and achieve optimal outcomes.

Essentials to Succeed

  • Has shipped and iterated recommendation / personalization / ranking or search systems serving millions of users, and can walk through what moved the metrics, what didn't, and why (typically 2+ years of industrial ML experience).
  • Strong grounding in retrieval and ranking modeling, embeddings, and online experimentation.
  • Hands-on fine-tuning of open-source models/LLMs (SFT / LoRA / DPO) applied to ranking, personalization, or user modeling, and the judgment of when classic methods win.
  • Builds evaluation sets and harnesses as a default step, not an afterthought.
  • Understands dataset licensing and provenance for commercial use.
  • Solid MLOps fundamentals: data pipelines, productionisation, monitoring, and GPU cost awareness.
  • Comfortable in a batch data stack — Spark or equivalent, a scheduler(e.g. Airflow), cloud training and serving (e.g. AWS SageMaker). You’d own the model through ingestion, training, serving, monitoring, retraining and rollback.
  • Strong Python and PyTorch; familiarity with the Hugging Face ecosystem (transformers / PEFT / TRL) and modern inference stacks (e.g. vLLM) is a plus.
  • Uses agentic AI tools as a daily driver for engineering work, and can show how they changed your workflow.
  • Education in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, or Mathematics, or equivalent practical depth.
  • Strong desire to solve tough problems with scientific rigour at scale, and to get results early and iterate.

ShopBacker Traits

  • Agency - We take ownership and act, rather than waiting for permission. When something's blocking progress, we find a way through it and follow through until it's done.
  • Judgement - We aim for high-impact decisions, not just easy wins, and we put the bigger picture ahead of individual interests. That means moving quickly and confidently, while staying thoughtful about when a call really matters.
  • Learning Velocity - We pick up new skills fast and let go of old habits just as quickly when something better comes along. We benchmark ourselves against the best and keep raising our own bar.
  • Tenacity - We stay in it when things get hard, keeping a level head under pressure. We debate openly before deciding, then commit fully — and support each other along the way.

What's in it for ShopBackers

  • Career growth opportunities to take on greater challenges that help you realise your ambitions.
  • Be part of a winning team on a journey to global scale.
  • Competitive compensation based on performance.
  • Candid, open, and collaborative culture where feedback is valued.
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