Job Description

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether youre 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 YahooYahoo is a leading provider of media and technology brands, reaching over a billion people around the world. Yahoos 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 RoleWe 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 prototypingImplement scalable, maintainable, secure and reusable strategic solutionsEstimate timelines, perform task breakdown, scoping, design, implementation for mid-to-large scale products and complex multi-month deliverables with insightful strategic approachesSeek opportunities in our day-to-day workflow and process to improve quality and efficiency from initial ideation to deploymentPresent and communicate across the team to showcase progress, share knowledge and evangelize best practicesPerform code reviews for your peers where they will learn from your experience and guidance contributing to collaborative working modelsRecommend approaches to solving complex problems and use new technologies to achieve goalsOwn, 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 performRequirements (must have):BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science or a related major5-9 years industry experience as a Back End EngineerDeep 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 servicesExperience implementing large scale, highly integrated, distributed data acquisition, ingestion, publishing, storing and serving systemsAbility to implement multi-layered, scaled applications using AWS native servicesAdvantageous to have the following:Machine learning, AI, statistics, information retrieval, linguistic and sentimental analysisExperience with containerization technology (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)Development experience in public cloud infrastructure like GCP or AWSYahoo 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 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 ( ) or call 408-336-1409. 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 dont 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, youll be given notice to make arrangements.If youre 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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