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Yahoo  ·  nan, · Remote

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About the job

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900 million people worldwide, 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.A little about us:At Yahoo News, we are laser-focused on making discovery delightful and becoming the world’s best curator for our 35 million daily users. We are also 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.Who You Are

  • You are an outstanding software engineer with experience building and maintaining complex software systems.
  • You excel at explaining technical concepts to anyone and everyone. People enjoy collaborating with you.
  • You have a bias for action. When you see problems, you solve them. You have a "can-do" attitude.
  • 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 know that writing code isn’t the end of the process, and you delight in understanding how that code is running in production, looking at metrics, and planning improvements.
Responsibilities
  • Hands-on development of next-generation features, tooling and infrastructure for Yahoo! News.
  • Help to scope, plan, and implement best-in-class software practices, procedures, and delivery.
  • Contribute to implementation guidelines and execution strategy for your team’s goals.
  • Collaborate with your peers, product managers, and engineering leaders on new features and enhancements.
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing.
Qualifications
  • Solid industry experience as a front-end engineer developing customer-facing products.
  • Expert in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, data structures, algorithms, performance optimisation, and software design
  • Deep functional knowledge and hands-on experience in frontend programming languages and frameworks such as Javascript, React, CSS, Tailwind
  • Deep technical knowledge of web application development with a strong command of browser-side client technologies, including AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript and object-oriented Javascript
  • Good understanding and experience with web performance and optimisation
  • Knowledge of modern CI/CD systems and methodologies
  • Predisposition towards testing, instrumentation, and documentation.
  • Ability to work well with diverse groups of people geographically dispersed across the world
  • Knowledge of cloud-based platforms such as AWS or GCP is an advantage.
Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements.If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.

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