Sr Software Engineer, Frontend

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

Yahoo is a global media and tech company connecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide to their passions. We provide trusted products, content, and technology spanning finance, sports, shopping, gaming, news, search, and mail. For partners, we offer a full-stack platform to amplify growth and drive meaningful connections across advertising, search, and media.

About Research

Yahoo Research is at the forefront of developing intuitive, intelligent, and forward-looking products across our brand portfolio. We harness AI and emerging technologies to shape the next generation of Yahoo, hiring world-class engineers to support our ambitious product and platform goals. Our engineers thrive in a highly collaborative environment with a strong emphasis on technical excellence and innovation. This is a unique opportunity as we reimagine the future of Search, reinventing how users find information and accomplish their goals. To achieve this vision, we are integrating new technology and expanding our infrastructure. This role demands strategic partnership, analytical thinking, exceptional planning and execution skills, ambitious innovation, an obsession with quality and user needs, a passion for solving complex problems, and the commitment to implement durable solutions quickly and effectively. If you enjoy being part of high-performing teams, this role is for you!

About You

You are passionate about web development, frontend engineering, and crafting beautiful user interfaces and experiences with modern web technologies. You look for ways to grow your skill set and value high quality application development on modern tech stacks in the cloud. You are interested in how best to drive tasks to completion, collaborate to achieve your goals, think through scenarios and edge cases, learn from your leadership, and understand the broader impact of your work. You will work closely with the product and design teams to plan, experiment and release features in collaboration with other engineering partners and business stakeholders. If you are interested in joining a world-class team of passionate people and industry veterans who care about code quality, architecture, design and user experience as much as having fun together, then we’d like to talk to you.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the definition, design, development and timely completion of major new features in current and future products
• Perform code reviews for your peers where you will be learning from and contributing to a collaborative working model
• Develop, design, and maintain simple, intuitive, and feature-rich dynamic interfaces and components, providing an optimized and responsive experience for users
• Collaborate with user experience designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver new features, enhancements, platform improvements and bug fixes
• Collaborate with other engineers to write testable, reliable code, continuously deploying to production systems
• Drive and enforce modern web application technologies, processes, and methodologies to continually craft and improve applications for speed, usability, performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Drive adoption of industry standards for building user interfaces including accessibility, internationalization, performance optimization, SEO, cross-browser compatibility, caching, etc
• Develop and promote a library of reusable web components as part of a larger design system
• Monitor, analyze, and improve the performance and responsiveness of web applications, components, and infrastructure

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, or equivalent degree/experience
• 5+ years experience developing user interfaces for large scale applications
• Deep technical knowledge of web application development with strong command of browser-side client technologies including AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript and object-oriented Javascript
• Passion for delivering products end-to-end; from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing
• Expertise with modern JavaScript frameworks like React, Next, Vue, Svelte, etc
• Experience with full stack JavaScript development with Node, Express, Next, Fastify, etc
• Experience with test driven development, functional testing, and unit test/UI test frameworks such as Jest, Cypress, Selenium, Puppeteer, etc
• Experience with cloud services, infrastructure, and serverless on common platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, etc
• Experience and knowledge of best practices around CI/CD (build, document, test, deploy)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven history of being able to work and collaborate effectively with non-technical team members and stakeholders in a remote environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with mobile web development and responsive design
• Experience with SCRUM or similar agile development methodology

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.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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