Full Stack Software Engineer

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

About Yahoo

Yahoo is a leading provider of media and technology brands, reaching over a billion people around the world. Yahoo’s Media Engineering organization uses the latest technologies to build brands our members love. Our brands include Yahoo, AOL, Engadget, TechCrunch, Autoblog, In The Know and many more. They reach hundreds of millions of users so we are focused on building everything at a massive scale. We strive to create world-class user experiences for our valued members, delivering up to the minute, trusted content and data across all of our brands. In order to support this, our teams build the best in breed tools, APIs, utilities and services using bleeding edge technologies at scale.

At Yahoo Finance, we power experiences for millions of users globally every month and remain the clear leader in our category. Our systems scale to processing 5 billion market events per day from over 80 global exchanges. We are the largest business, financial information and tools app/site in the world, with unrivaled access to data, insights, tools and original editorial content. Under a new leadership team, we have recommitted to building and revitalizing this essential, trusted resource for investors and savers.

About The Role

We are looking for an experienced engineer with a proven track record of building world class scalable systems that exceed customer needs while achieving business goals. In this position, you will collaborate closely with Engineering, Product and Design teams to enhance our expanding range of product offerings. Additionally, you will develop applications and tools essential for effectively supporting our overall business operations and ensuring the quality of our data and services. This role will be directly responsible for architecting, designing, scoping, building, maintaining, and iterating on the underlying systems needed to deliver world class finance products and features.

Responsibilities:

• Be part of an agile scrum team and demonstrate constant progress through proof of concept, sandboxing and prototyping
• Architect and design scalable, maintainable, secure and reusable strategic solutions
• Design and implement frameworks and tools that empower other developers and non-technical colleagues across your entire team
• Estimate timelines, perform task breakdown, scoping, design, implementation for mid-to-large scale products and complex multi-month deliverables with insightful strategic approaches
• Lead key team initiatives from start to finish by managing and improving the entire software development life cycle
• Seek opportunities in our day-to-day workflow and process to improve quality and efficiency from initial ideation to deployment
• Present and communicate across multiple groups to showcase progress, share knowledge and evangelize best practices
• Performing code reviews for your peers where they will learn from your experience and guidance contributing to collaborative working models
• Recommend approaches to solving complex problems and use new technologies to achieve goals
• Own, deploy, monitor, and operate large-scale production systems distributed across the globe.
• Lead and mentor junior engineers in the process of building production grade systems and applications which scale and perform
• Act as technical liaison to business teams to translate business needs to work streams and technical solutions
  
  

Requirements (must have):

• BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science or a related major
• Minimum of 5 years industry experience as a Full Stack Engineer
• Front End Stack - React, Svelte , Java Script ,jQuery, HTML, CSS, Node JS
• Micro Service API - Java, Spring
• Experience architecting and implementing large scale, highly integrated, distributed data acquisition, ingestion, publishing, storing and serving systems
• Ability to implement multi-layered, scaled applications using AWS native services
• Advantageous to have the following:
• Knowledge in web standards and technologies such as JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, Ajax, HTTP, JSON, React etc.
• Experience with containerization technology (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)
  
  

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements.

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.