Senior Front-End Software Engineer

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.

This is a hybrid in-office role, located in Mountain View, CA.

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M 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.

Yahoo Finance is the largest business and financial information and tools app/site in the world, with unrivaled access to data, insights, tools and original editorial content. Under a new leadership team, we have recommitted to building and revitalizing this essential, trusted resource for investors and savers. With 100 million unique users each month, Yahoo Finance presents amazing opportunities for brands to tell their stories and connect with consumers.

We are looking for a talented candidate with solid web development to join the Yahoo Finance Web team. The candidate will work in an agile environment, and be responsible for building and maintaining web applications. In addition, this candidate will optimize presentation layer components for performance and an exceptional user experience. This candidate will collaborate directly with a cross-functional team of architects, designers, front-end and back-end engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to facilitate the design and development process. Ultimately, the work will have a direct impact on the user experience of our customers.

Responsibilities: 

• Build responsive and compelling Web applications and components.

• Code using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and AJAX.

• Identify performance bottlenecks in JavaScript components and data service layer.

• Proactively optimize for scalability, efficiency, and maintainability in a practical way

• Follow good coding, testing, and documenting best practices and adhere to existing standards.

• Ensure the quality of code by writing tests and doing code reviews.

• Build reusable code and libraries.

• Design frameworks and tools that empower other developers on your team.

• Own features from inception to implementation and launch.

A Lot About You:

• Bachelors or greater in Computer Science or equivalent (e.g. 5+ years of work experience).

• 5+ years of professional experience with modern Web technologies.

• You have a deep understanding and solid and versatile experience with standard web technologies.

• You have a deep knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, XML, and cross-browser platforms.

• You have good knowledge of usability principles and best practices is required.

• You have knowledge of SEO principles.

• You can implement solutions that are user responsive and efficient.

• You are capable of implementing a resilient web architecture.

• You have experience with browser testing and debugging.

• You are analytical and you have a keen eye for details.

• You have great problem-solving skills and you work well in a team.

• You’re curious about new technologies and you're driven to find ways to implement them in your work.

• You have experience with coaching and mentoring other developers.

• You have excellent multitasking skills.

• You can oversee and drive projects forward.

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