Sr Software Development Engineer

Yahoo Finance is the world’s #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity.

Hybrid role 2 days in office - Bay Area

A little About Us:

Yahoo Finance is the largest business and 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. 

Join Yahoo Finance Engineering – help us design and build various systems that power our products. 

This role is for the Yahoo Finance Data Platform team. The team is responsible for building and enhancing systems that ingest and process real-time and batch data from various feed providers for the data presented on Yahoo Finance. 

On a day-to-day basis, the engineer will work on various tasks involving feed acquisition, processing, and building/enhancing systems to power products and/or features. This will involve writing code, debugging, enhancing existing code, and designing data models to store data efficiently to power various product use cases. 

Responsibilities:

• Write code to perform data acquisition and processing for new data feeds

• Take ownership of existing data feeds and data processing systems

• Execute the modernization initiatives underway in the team

• Build new components, and platforms as needed for powering product initiatives

A lot About You:

• Demonstrated industry experience building backend systems

• Experience working on real-time and/or batch-feed processing systems

• Experience with databases

• 5+ years of industry experience

• Masters/Bachelors in Computer Science (or a related technical field)

• Strong system design skills especially involving modern distributed systems

• Strong data modeling skills 

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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