Job Description

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. Whether you\xe2\x80\x99re 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\xe2\x80\x94and the world. Want in?

A Little About Us

Yahoo is one of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we rely on massively scalable, widely distributed, highly performant, and efficient software systems. If you want to help solve complex software problems for systems like these, we are looking for you.

The Data and Common Services (DCS) team within the Yahoo Advertising Engineering organization is responsible for the Advertising core data infrastructure and services that provide common, horizontal services for user and contextual targeting, privacy and analytics. We are responsible for providing fast, clean, reliable, and relevant data for Yahoo\xe2\x80\x99s advertising businesses as well as key measurements and insights about Yahoo users. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable data platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges.

We are actively seeking candidates located in Hyderabad for this position.

Responsibilities include:

Build highly scalable, high-performance and stable advertising experience

Work closely with product managers to understand the business requirements, translate them into design and implementation approaches, and rapidly drive convergence towards the best solution

Engineer the full product lifecycle, from concept, design, through maintenance, handling prioritization and trade-offs across functional domains

Hands-on coding: Develop and maintain high quality code base, consistently delivering ambitious, stable, and maintainable projects on schedule

Work with user experience designers and engineering team

Participate in understanding customer\'s feedback and fix issues reported by customers

Embrace and improve standard methodologies to develop rapid ways of software development and prototyping

Maintain coding and documentation standards, participate in code reviews

Mentor and provide technical leadership for junior engineers

Automate deployments using CI/CD pipelines

Understand various pieces of technology used at Yahoo and evaluate new technologies

Provide regular updates to management on project status

Job requirements:

8+ years of industry experience as a Frontend engineer or in a similar role

Frontend technologies like HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and open-source frameworks like Emberjs, Reactjs or Angularjs and related libraries

Working knowledge of web performance and optimization techniques

Frontend package managers such as npm, bower, yarn, webpack etc

Server-side technologies that involve Node.js and libraries such as Express.js,

Other scripting languages such as PHP, Perl and Shell script

Cloud infrastructure like AWS and Kubernetes containers

Knowledge of cross browser compatibility issues and web security

Testing frameworks such as Mocha, Selenium, qunit and test runners like testem

Continuous delivery and continuous integration tools such as Screwdriver, Jenkins, etc

Must have good object-oriented programming, design and debugging skills

Must have strong verbal and written communication skills and analytical and problem solving skills

Excellent team player with strong collaboration skills

Should have a strong sense of commitment and responsibility

Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

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 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 don\xe2\x80\x99t 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\xe2\x80\x99ll be given notice to make arrangements.

If you\xe2\x80\x99re 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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