Sr. Principal Architect

Yahoo Finance is the world’s #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity.

We are seeking a highly skilled and actively coding Sr Principal Engineer with deep expertise in full-stack systems and cloud architecture.  This is a hands-on technical leadership role, where you will spend a significant portion of your time writing, reviewing, and shipping production-quality code. As a key member of the YFinance Engineering organization, you will leverage your full-stack mastery and understanding of evolving cloud technologies to shape the future of Yahoo Finance's many applications across web, native and off-platform experiences.  You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop scalable, high-performance solutions grounded in solid architectural principles that delight our users.

Location: This is a hybrid position based in our Mountain View office or San Francisco office, requiring 2 days per week in-office.
 

Responsibilities

• Hands-on Development & Implementation: Actively code, implement, test, and optimize full-stack applications, back-end services and cloud-based technologies in AWS, such as Step Functions, Lambdas, Fargate, EC2, DynamoDB, Glue and other serverless technologies.  This is a primary function of the role, involving daily coding.

• Cloud Architecture Design & Execution: Contribute to and lead architectural decisions across YFinance Engineering, driving implementation through hands-on prototyping, coding, and technical validation to ensure scalability, performance, and security of cloud-based solutions in both AWS and GCP.

• Full-Stack Collaboration: Work closely with front-end and back-end engineers to define, consume, and integrate APIs (RESTful, GraphQL, etc.) with front-end applications, improving performance and functionality for our platforms.

• Code Quality and Best Practices: Champion and implement best practices in code structure, design patterns, testing strategies, maintainability and observability through your own contributions and code reviews.

• Performance Optimization: Proactively identify, analyze, and implement solutions to enhance the performance of applications in the cloud, ensuring fast load times and a seamless user experience.

• Technical Mentorship & Collaboration: Mentor other engineers through code reviews, pair programming, technical guidance, and sharing expertise, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into robust, well-engineered technical solutions.  

• Stay Current & Innovate: Keep up with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices, evaluating and proposing their adoption where they can drive tangible improvements.
   

Qualifications

• Education:

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
     

• Technical Skills:

  • 12+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong emphasis on front-end development and demonstrable experience shipping complex web applications.

  • Deep proficiency and hands-on expertise in NodeJS, Java, Golang or Rust

  • Proficiency in designing serverless cloud-native solutions using AWS technologies such as Lambdas or Fargate

  • Proficiency in designing and managing applications in Kubernetes networks

  • Extensive practical experience building full-stack and back-end applications with modern frameworks such as ExpressJS or Koa.

  • Proven experience designing and consuming RESTful, GraphQL, or equivalent APIs for user-facing applications.

  • Solid understanding and practical application of software development design patterns and best practices.

  • Experience with performance tuning, optimization techniques, and diagnostic tools for large-scale web applications.

  • Good understanding of user experience principles and ability to collaborate effectively with design teams.

  • Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, ES6 preferred
     

• Soft Skills:

  • Product-Oriented Mindset: Demonstrates a strong understanding of user needs and business goals, prioritizing work and making technical decisions that best serve the product and its users.

  • Strong team player who values diverse perspectives and encourages open dialogue.

  • Ability to articulate complex technical ideas and solutions effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

  • Strong problem-solving abilities and meticulous attention to detail in implementation, balanced with a focus on delivering user value.
     

• Leadership:

  • Experience leading technical projects or complex features while remaining deeply involved in the coding and implementation details.

  • Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide team members through active technical collaboration and code review.

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.

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The compensation for this position ranges from $160,965.00 - $349,885.00/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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