Principal 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 principal engineer with a proven track record of architecting world class scalable systems that exceed customer needs while achieving business goals. This role will work directly with engineering, product, and design leadership to expand our growing catalog of product offerings. This role will be directly responsible for architecting, designing, scoping, building, maintaining, and iterating on the underlying systems needed to deliver commerce products. Our commerce product platform will integrate seamlessly within our existing ad ecosystem to continue to deliver results for our partners and further optimize our user experiences. 

Responsibilities

• Autonomously architect and design scalable, maintainable, secure and reusable strategic solutions

• Strategic thought partner with engineering leadership that helps to develop team members through direct mentorship

• Determine estimation, work break down, scoping, design, implementation for mid-to-large scale products, and complex multi-month deliverables with insightful strategic approaches

• Act as primary technical liaison to business teams to translate business needs to work streams and technical solutions

• Lead key team initiatives from start to finish by managing and improving the entire software development life cycle

• Present and communicate across multiple groups to influence decisions, share knowledge, and solve organizational problems

• Asses team resourcing and delivery scope and estimates to ensure we balance sense of urgency and quality

• Architect and develop highly performant web and system applications that are validated by strong unit tests, continuous integration testing, and regression tests

• Work with Business and Product leaders to conduct research, and develop systems that support ongoing innovations and discover strategic opportunities

• Support our applications in production, including working with our Support, Operations, and Product teams to minimize the incident impact on our business

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

• Responsible for the definition, design, development and timely completion of system components as well as new features in current and future products

• Performing code reviews for your peers where they will learn from your experience and guidance contributing to collaborative working models

• Recommending approaches to solving complex problems and use new technologies to achieve goals

• Establishing, implementing, and promoting commerce engineering best practices and standards

Qualifications

• Ability to independently architect an open-ended problem with minimal oversight to solve business needs while leveraging various technologies objectively during decision making

• High proficiency with several of the following; SPA applications, distributed systems, domain driven design, API design, multiple database systems, data engineering, performance tuning, content delivery, page performance optimization, multiple languages, and functional / unit / performance testing frameworks

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

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields

• You enjoy working with a strong, cross-functional, and sometimes cross-geography team of engineers and data scientists, and you are passionate about working with our business and product teams to turn ideas into products

• 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 interests in building large-scale distributed systems

• Experience in online advertising serving systems, large-scale data processing, and complex ad hoc analyses

• Experience building web products end-2-end with a deep understanding of web principals

• Deep functional knowledge and hands on experience with the following technologies (or equivalent); Java, J2EE, Python, JavaScript, JQuery, Spring, RESTful Web Services, Kafka, AWS MSK, AWS S3, MongoDB, JPA

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 meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

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 will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. 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.

At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion (www.yahooinc.com/diversity/) page to learn more.

The compensation for this position ranges from $143,625.00 - $299,375.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

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.

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