Principal Front-end Software Development Engineer

1 Month ago • 10 Years + • Frontend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Principal Front-end Software Development Engineer at Yahoo News, you will be responsible for developing next-generation features, collaborating with peers and product managers, and optimising for performance. You will establish best practices, influence technical roadmaps, mentor junior engineers, and foster a culture of continuous learning. The role involves hands-on development, staying up-to-date on industry best practices, and contributing to the overall success of the team.
Must have:
  • 10+ years of software development experience in frontend.
  • Expertise in frontend programming languages and frameworks.
  • Deep understanding of web application development.
Good to have:
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks.
  • Knowledge of modern CI/CD systems and methodologies.

Job Details

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.

A little about us:

 

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

 

At Yahoo News, we are laser-focused on making discovery delightful, becoming the world’s best curator for our 35 million daily users, and 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.

A Lot About You:

  • You are an outstanding frontend 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 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

Core Responsibilities:

  • Hands-on development of next-generation features for Yahoo! News. Help to scope, plan, and implement best-in-class software practices, procedures, and delivery.

  • Collaborate with your peers, product managers, and engineering leaders on new features and enhancements. Establish best practices and influence long-term technical roadmaps that enable teams to leverage maximum efficiency and compliance.

  • Apply deep technical expertise, continuously optimising for performance across Yahoo properties.

  • Provide mentoring to software engineers and lead by example, fostering a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications:

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

  • 10+ years of software development experience with significant expertise in frontend development of customer-facing products

  • Deep functional knowledge and hands-on experience in frontend programming languages and modern frameworks such as JavaScript, React, and Tailwind Deep technical understanding of web application development with strong command of browser-side client technologies including AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript and object-oriented JavaScript

  • Expert in the software development domain and principles, including design patterns, data structures, algorithms, performance optimisation, and software design Excellent understanding and experience with web performance and optimisation.

  • Strong Knowledge of modern CI/CD systems and methodologies Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks Predisposition towards testing, instrumentation, and documentation.

  • Ability to work well with diverse groups of people, geographically dispersed across the world Excellent listening and communication skills; communicating team and project goals, including technical details for front-end components.

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.

Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.

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