Senior Staff Fullstack Software Engineer, Yahoo for Creators
Yahoo - New York, New York, us, 10261Work at Yahoo
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Overview
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 seeing millions of users running your code.You have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and understand how to apply them to craft pragmatic 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.
Responsibilities
Hands-on development of next-generation tooling and infrastructure of Yahoo! for Creators and Publishers.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 both peers and leaders on new customer-facing features.Responsible for the definition, design, development and timely completion of major new features in current and future productsPerforming code reviews for your peers where you will be learning from and contributing to a collaborative working modelTackling hard engineering and user experience problems and solving them in an elegant and seamless mannerTaking ownership of features and areas of the web application that will impact millions of users.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 features, enhancements, platform improvements and bug fixesCollaborate with other engineers to write testable, reliable code, continuously deploying to production systemsGrowing in a culture of learning through design discussions and code reviewsDeploy, monitor and operate large scale production systems distributed across the globeRecommend alternative approaches to solving complex problems and use new technology to achieve goals
Qualifications
BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience7 years of software development experience in customer-facing software productsDeep technical knowledge of JS frameworks such as React and Node.jsDeep technical knowledge of web application development with strong command of browser-side client technologies including AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript and object-oriented JavascriptExperience working with REST APIs and/or GraphQLExperience with GCP or AWSExpert in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architectureExperience with Web Technologies (Node, HTTP, JSON, Webpack)Experience with test driven development, unit test / UI test frameworks such as Jest / Selenium / WebdriverIO / Puppeteer / Cypress is an added advantageExpert knowledge of web application performance, stability and debugging
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