Back End Software Engineer

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.

About Yahoo

Yahoo is a leading provider of media and technology brands, reaching over a billion people around the world. Yahoo’s Media Engineering organization uses the latest technologies to build brands our members love. Our brands include Yahoo, AOL, Engadget, TechCrunch, Autoblog, In The Know and many more. They reach hundreds of millions of users so we are focused on building everything at a massive scale. We strive to create world-class user experiences for our valued members, delivering up to the minute, trusted content and data across all of our brands. In order to support this, our teams build the best in breed tools, APIs, utilities and services using bleeding edge technologies at scale.

At Yahoo Finance, we power experiences for millions of users globally every month and remain the clear leader in our category. Our systems scale to processing 5 billion market events per day from over 80 global exchanges. We are the largest business, 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.

About The Role

We are looking for an experienced engineer with a proven track record of building world class scalable systems that exceed customer needs while achieving business goals. In this position, you will collaborate closely with Engineering, Product and Design teams to enhance our expanding range of product offerings. Additionally, you will develop applications and tools essential for effectively supporting our overall business operations and ensuring the quality of our data and services. This role will be directly responsible for architecting, designing, scoping, building, maintaining, and iterating on the underlying systems needed to deliver world class finance products and features. The role will be located in Bangalore, India. 

Your Day: 

• Be part of an agile scrum team and demonstrate constant progress through proof of concept, sandboxing and prototyping

• Implement scalable, maintainable, secure and reusable strategic solutions

• Estimate timelines, perform task breakdown, scoping, design, implementation for mid-to-large scale products and complex multi-month deliverables with insightful strategic approaches

• Seek opportunities in our day-to-day workflow and process to improve quality and efficiency from initial ideation to deployment

• Present and communicate across the team to showcase progress, share knowledge and evangelize best practices

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

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

• Own, deploy, monitor, and operate large-scale production systems distributed across the globe. 

• Mentor junior engineers in the process of building production grade systems and applications which scale and perform 

Requirements (must have):

• BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science or a related major

• 5-9 years industry experience as a Back End Engineer

• Deep functional knowledge and hands on experience with the following technologies (or equivalent); Java, J2EE, mySQL, Spring, RESTful Web Services, Apache Storm, Apache Spark, GraphQL, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS services

• Experience implementing large scale, highly integrated, distributed data acquisition, ingestion, publishing, storing and serving systems

• Ability to implement multi-layered, scaled applications using AWS native services

• Advantageous to have the following:

  • Machine learning, AI, statistics, information retrieval, linguistic and sentimental analysis

  • Experience with containerization technology (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)

  • Development experience in public cloud infrastructure like GCP or AWS

Important notes for your attention

Applications: 

All applicants must apply for Yahoo openings direct with Yahoo.  We do not authorize any external agencies in India to handle candidates’ applications.   No agency nor individual may charge candidates for any efforts they make on an applicant’s behalf in the hiring process.  

Our internal recruiters will reach out to you directly to discuss the next steps if we determine that the role is a good fit for you.  Selected candidates will go through formal interviews and assessments arranged by Yahoo direct.  

Offer Distributions: 

Our electronic offer letter and documents will be issued through our system for e-signatures, not via individual emails.

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.

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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