Senior Full-Stack Software Dev Engineer

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

A Little About Us:

The Yahoo Commerce team’s mission is to help our audience of 600M monthly active users discover and make informed decisions about products and services so they can save time and money. We primarily serve audiences who are in their shopping journeys across all Yahoo properties. We work directly with our partners to reach new audiences, gain new users, and drive GMV through leveraging our ecosystem of products and services. 

A Lot About You:

We are looking for an experienced engineer who works well in a cross-functional environment designing and developing world class systems and solutions for our users and our partners. This role will work directly with engineering peers, data scientists, product managers, and designers to expand our growing catalog of product offerings. This role will be directly responsible for designing, scoping, building, maintaining, and iterating on the systems needed to deliver commerce products.

Responsibilities

• Autonomously design scalable, maintainable, secure and reusable strategic solutions

• Develop team members through direct mentorship

• Determine estimation, work break down, scoping, design, implementation for mid-to-large scale products, and complex multi-month deliverables with insightful strategic approaches

• Act as primary technical liaison to business teams to translate business needs to work streams and technical solutions

• Lead key team initiatives from start to finish by managing and improving the entire software development life cycle

• Present and communicate across multiple groups to influence decisions, share knowledge, and solve organizational problems

• Asses team resourcing and delivery scope and estimates to ensure we balance sense of urgency and quality

• Develop highly performant web and system applications that are validated by strong unit tests, continuous integration testing, and regression tests

• Collect, analyze and convert data into engineering and business insights

• Support our applications in production, including working with our Support, Operations, and Product teams to minimize the incident impact on our business

• Work on Commerce ecosystem expansion, delivering against a holistic monetization strategy across numerous verticals

• Responsible for the definition, design, development and timely completion of major new features in current and future products

• Performing code reviews for your peers where you will be learning from and contributing to collaborative working models

• Working with engineering team members to explore and create interesting solutions while sharing knowledge amongst the team

• Collaborating with user experience designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver new products, features, enhancements, platform improvements and bug fixes

• Recommend alternative approaches to solving complex problems and use new technologies to achieve goals

Qualifications

• High proficiency with several of the following; SPA applications, front-end web architectures, distributed systems, domain driven design, API design, web application performance tuning, content delivery, page performance optimization, multiple languages, and functional / unit / performance testing frameworks

• You are an outstanding software engineer with significant experience building and maintaining complex software systems and/or web applications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields preferred

• You enjoy working with a strong, cross-functional, and sometimes cross-geography team of engineers, and you are passionate about working with our business and product teams to turn ideas into products

• You love coding and experimenting with new technologies

• You always think positively, have a can-do attitude, and focus on "getting stuff done" with quality

• People like to work with you because you're a fast learner, a capable engineer, and a responsible team player

• Strong interest and experience delivering world class web based consumer facing user experiences

• Expert in the following technologies (or equivalent); Node.js, Next.js, React.js, TypeScript, CSS and HTML

• Deep functional knowledge or hands on design experience with Web Services (REST, etc ..)

• Experience building web products end-2-end with a deep understanding of web principals

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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 will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. 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 +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome.

The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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