Yahoo News is focused on making discovery delightful and becoming the world's best curator for its users, expanding distribution to more platforms to meet more users where they are. Building the best guide to the Internet requires building the best team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of strong programming experience in Python, Go, Javascript, etc.
- Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks (React, Vue, Angular)
- Experience with architecting infrastructure in AWS
- Experience architecting, implementing and maintaining web server applications
- Familiarity with back end web application frameworks and open source tools
- Proficiency in managing APIs and integrating third-party APIs
- Solid experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
Responsibilities
- Own the services you build, ensuring they run reliably in production and addressing issues end-to-end
- You would be building new infrastructure in AWS and GCP
- You would be part of defining the foundations of the infrastructure that will power the next generation of products at Yahoo, using the latest in cloud services, frameworks and open source tools
- Help to scope, plan, and implement best-in-class software practices, procedures, and delivery
- Contribute to implementation guidelines and execution strategy for your team’s goals
- Collaborate with your peers, product managers, and engineering leaders on new features and enhancements
Other
- You excel at explaining technical concepts to anyone and everyone. People enjoy collaborating with you
- You have a bias for action. When you see problems, you solve them
- You are extremely curious. You are constantly interested in how the software you interact with works “under the hood”
- You are customer focused–regardless of whether the customer is an external user or an internal team
- You know that writing code isn’t the end of the process, and you delight in understanding how that code is running in production, looking at metrics, and planning improvements
