Software Dev Engineer II

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 looking for a highly motivated full-time Software Engineer who will join our User Journeys squad, helping deliver all aspects of our core user experiences on Yahoo Finance.  The squad is responsible for Yahoo Finance’s homepage, article streams, video player management and SEO, linking dozens of disparate systems to create a single world-class consumer experience.  The squad is hyper focused on maintaining best-in-class technical performance, focusing on core web vitals, paint times, latency and dozens of other metrics that we use as benchmarks. The ideal candidate will be able to contribute to both frontend and backend codebases, and should have an interest in adjacent systems and tools such as deployment pipelines and k8s.

Location: This is a hybrid position based in our NYC office, requiring 2 days per week in-office.

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver high-quality, performant frontend and backend code across content codebases and applications (Svelte / React / nodes)

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

• Collaborate with other engineers to write testable, reliable code, continuously deploying to production systems

• Participate in design reviews, code reviews and product development

• Contribute to the career development of junior engineers, using methodologies like pair programming to up-level and teach

• Deploy, monitor and operate large scale production systems distributed across the globe

• Analyze and optimize application/platform code and/or APIs for efficiency and performance

• Lead hands-on implementation work to keep current with technology trends inside and outside Yahoo

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science with 6+ years of hands-on experience in delivering large-scale web applications

• Strong experience in JavaScript, HTML, CSS and at least one modern framework (React, Svelte, NextJS); full-stack experience with nodejs applications a major plus

• Understanding of large-scale web applications (clustering, scalability, caching, performance tuning)

• Understanding of agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, and agile engineering practices like Test-Driven Development, Continuous integration, and other Extreme programming practices

• Proficient in a Unix/Linux environment, HTTP, Web services, and Restful API

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

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!

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The compensation for this position ranges from $111,000.00 - $231,250.00/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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