Software Engineer
It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. 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. Want in?
A little about Consumer Engineering:
Yahoo is a leading provider of media and technology brands, reaching over a billion people around the world. Yahoo’s Consumer Engineering organization uses the latest technologies to build brands our members love. Our brands include Yahoo, AOL, Engadget, TechCrunch, Autoblog and many more. They reach hundreds of millions of users so we are focused on building everything at massive scale. We strive to create world-class user experiences for our valued members, delivering up to the minute, trusted content 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.
Yahoo! Finance is the largest business and financial news site in the world, with unrivaled access to data, insights, and original editorial content. We power experiences for 100+ million users globally every month. Our systems process 5+ billion market events per day from over 80 global exchanges.
We’re looking for a highly skilled and motivated engineer to help us evolve market data curation for Yahoo! Finance. This involves processing a wide variety of financial and corporate data feeds to make raw and derived data available to users and partners. The associated systems are composed of Java, C++, MySQL, Redis, Hadoop, Apache Pulsar, Apache Storm, Apache Spark, among others.
Responsibilities
Excite, enthrall and delight our millions of members by taking ownership of and having accountability for some of Yahoo’s flagship, user facing properties including Yahoo Finance, Yahoo/AOL Homepages or Yahoo Sports
Collaborate with Product Managers and talented engineers across international offices to deliver new user facing features, APIs, enhancements and bug fixes.
Innovate around our scaled architecture while leveraging the latest technologies and adhering to industry best practice.
Write high quality, performant, clean code in Java and mySQL among others
Write unit tests, functional tests and end-to-end integration tests.
Participate in system architecture, design and code reviews within cross-functional teams
Be part of an agile scrum team and demonstrate constant progress through proof of concept, sandboxing and prototyping.
Seek opportunities in our day-to-day workflow and process to improve quality and efficiency from initial ideation to deployment
Contribute to our CI/CD pipelines and related automation frameworks
Requirements
BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science or a related major
3+ years of real world experience working as part of a development team
Strong coding background with experience writing production grade code which is clean, maintainable and performant
Excellent communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills
Passion for and knowledge in the Finance field and a passion for delivering products that our millions users simply cannot live without.
Excellent knowledge in the following areas:
Java and the associated ecosystem of tools
MySQL (or similar)
Node.js development
Data structures and algorithms
Software engineering best practices
System architecture and design
Good knowledge in one or more of the following is a distinct advantage:
Hadoop
Public Cloud (i.e. AWS or GCP)
FE Standard Tech: HTML5, CSS, Vanilla JS, React
Kubernetes
Apache Storm
Apache Spark
Redis
C++
Python or other scripting language
What we offer
US Only: Please be aware that Yahoo requires all employees entering a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events) are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. This position will require the successful candidate to obtain and show proof of a vaccination to enter a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events). Yahoo is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.