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.

About Yahoo Commerce

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. 

About Role

We are looking for an experienced full-stack 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 building, maintaining, and iterating on the systems needed to deliver commerce products. Our commerce product platform will integrate seamlessly within our existing ecosystem to continue to deliver results for our partners and further optimize our user experience.

Responsibilities

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

• 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 solutions that support ongoing innovations and capitalize on strategic opportunities

• 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

• Tackling hard engineering and user experience problems and solving them in an elegant and seamless manner

• 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

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

• Experience making web applications and middleware systems more reliable, efficient, and scalable 

• Degree or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields

• 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 in test driven development, algorithms and data structure, and problem solving experience with object-oriented programming concepts, large-scale software architecture, networking and distributed systems

• You enjoy working with strong cross-functional and cross-geographical teams of engineers and data scientists, and you are passionate about working with our business and product teams to solve complex problems

• 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

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

• Strong interest and experience building large-scale distributed systems

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies;