Senior Engineering Manager, Yahoo for Creators

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.

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900 million people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news—with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.

At Yahoo News, we are laser-focused on making discovery delightful and becoming the world’s best curator for our 35 million daily users and expanding our distribution to more platforms to meet millions more users where they are. Building the best guide to the Internet (and the world) requires building the best team. 

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Engineering Manager who will lead multiple squads responsible for significant functional aspects of the Yahoo for Creators ecosystem. The ideal candidate will implement best practices in agile, continuous integration, and delivery to help the teams achieve high performance and unblock them when problems arise. The Senior Engineering Manager will also be responsible for team members' career growth and development while contributing technically to architecture, design, and implementation. Technical and management/organizational skills are equally valued for this role.

Who You Are

• You excel at explaining technical concepts to anyone and everyone - regardless of level. People enjoy collaborating with you.

• You have a bias for action. When you see problems, you solve them.

• You are familiar with designing and building distributed and scalable systems and enjoy empowering your team to deliver strong technical solutions.

• You are extremely curious. You are constantly interested in how the software you interact with works “under the hood”.

• You are customer focused–regardless of whether the customer is an external user or an internal team.

• You are product conscious. You are curious about our product area and are willing to share perspective and ideas to help the team deliver the best product for our customers.

• You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery, defensive programming and automated testing.

• You know that shipping new products isn’t the end of the process, and you delight in understanding how a product is running in production, looking at metrics, and planning improvements.

Responsibilities

• Engage, attract, and retain top talent

• Provide project and technical leadership to engineers in a fast-paced environment

• Drive technical excellence and implementation of best engineering practices

• Enforce design review, continuous integration and deployment

• Coordinate with partner teams to help unblock teams and resolve issues across teams

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

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in delivering large-scale web applications

• 4+ years of engineering management experience

• Strong experience in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS; Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as React, Svelte, and node.js or experience in developing a customer-facing application

• Understanding of large-scale web applications (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

• BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

We encourage candidates who may not check all the boxes to apply.

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