Senior Backend 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. 

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

• Work with Business and Product teams to conduct research, and develop systems that support ongoing innovations and discover strategic opportunities

• 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

A Lot About You:

You are an experienced backend engineer who enjoys working with strong cross-functional and cross-geographical teams of engineers and data scientists. You are passionate about working with our business and product teams to solve complex problems. You love coding and experimenting with new technologies, and think positively with a 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. In this role, you will have the opportunity to design, scope, build, maintain, and iterate on the underlying systems needed to deliver commerce products. Our commerce product platform will integrate seamlessly within our existing ad ecosystem to continue to deliver results for our partners and further optimize our user experience.

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields. Or equivalent experience

• High proficiency with several of the following; SPA applications, distributed systems, domain driven design, API design, database systems, data engineering, performance tuning, content delivery, and functional / unit / performance testing frameworks

• Experience building and maintaining complex distributed software systems, microservices, and/or web applications within a serverless architecture

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

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

• Significant experience with NoSQL (non relational) databases; key-value, document, graph, in-memory, and search

• Functional knowledge or experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lamda, etc)

• Expert in the following technologies (or equivalent); Java, Node.js