Senior Software Development Engineer

Yahoo is the world's largest start-up, which means that we move fast and always let our users lead the way. Founded in 1994 by two Stanford PhD candidates, we've grown into a company that helps you find what you're looking for on any Internet-connected device. Our employees are rewarded for curiosity and we celebrate explorers, relying on our passionate and transformative talent to do what's right for our users.

You will leverage your software engineering skills within an Agile product development framework to build the industry-leading search advertising tools and platform for Yahoo’s internal sales force. You will design, develop and maintain large-scale applications (UI and Backend) throughout the entire product lifecycle, and collaborate extensively with other sales, product, development, research and operations teams to deliver leading-edge products on time and under budget. Your goal is to build Sales Tools that become a daily habit for global Yahoo sales, use a variety of languages and technologies to make an impact, and drive growth in sales revenue globally.

• You will create new, distinguishing user experiences that will empower Yahoo Sales team

• Develop modern, beautiful, personal, and relevant experiences across devices

• Use edge-side caching and data query optimization to make applications “wicked fast”

• Design new advertising sales tools products to enhance the sales productivity and drive revenue

• Implement real-time measurement frameworks to help evaluate new features

• Define APIs that enable new use cases and engage developers internally and externally

• A degree in Computer Science or a closely related field

• 5+ years working experience in software industry

• Expertise Java

• Expertise in cloud, database, and big data technologies (desired)

• Expertise in Search, machine learning, natural language processing, or related field (desired)

• Expertise in creating high-performance, high-quality, reusable software at scale (desired)

• Expertise in data-informed and test-driven software development practices (desired)

• Pursues work with energy, passion, drive, and intense customer focus

• A personal commitment to continuous learning and self-development

• Ability to work well on a team, with a positive attitude