It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. Whether you’re 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. Want in?
A Little About Us:
Yahoo’s Media Growth team provides easy subscription, ads, marketing and commerce integration and support across the Yahoo ecosystem with capabilities to enhance user experience by serving targeted and non-intrusive offers that can be quickly tweaked without much engineering efforts. We also provide user activity data and profiles to the downstream systems for campaign targeting in both realtime and batch modes at Yahoo scale. This is all to create the most relevant end-to-end experiences and offers for members across the ecosystem, while driving the most value/yield for the business. An increase in engagement through personalization, right offer/content at the right time, and great consumer experience should drive lift in all of our goals including user engagement, subscription numbers and revenue.
Responsibilities:
Design, develop, code and test software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products; revise and refine as required
Participate in agile development of project timelines, implementation design specifications, system flow diagrams, documentation, testing and ongoing support of systems
Recommend modifications to processes and procedures, and contribute to best practices, architecture, and implementations
Promote and solicit ideas within project teams
Required Skills and Qualifications
Pursuing BS or MS in Computer Science or a related major, or equivalent experience
Experience in building applications using a Java tech-stack
Hands-on experience with REST APIs
Built or used Data Access Layer to fetch data from back-end database systems
Knowledge of software engineering processes, tools (e.g.: programming proficiency in a language, preferably Java, test development, support, algorithms and data structure
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
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 (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) 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.
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US Only: Please be aware that Yahoo requires all employees entering a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events) are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. This position will require the successful candidate to obtain and show proof of a vaccination to enter a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events). Yahoo is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.
The compensation for this position ranges from $45,760.00 - $135,200.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.
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’t 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’ll be given notice to make arrangements.
If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.
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