at Yahoo! Inc. in Champaign, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach hundreds of millions of people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love-from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news-with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.
A Little About Us
Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love-from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news-with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.
At Yahoo News, we are laser-focused on making discovery delightful and becoming the world's best curator for our 35 million daily users and expanding our distribution to more platforms to meet millions more users where they are. Building the best guide to the Internet (and the world) requires building the best team.
A Lot About 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 are willing and able to write code from time to time, although that is not a day to day part of this role. You are excited to get into the weeds and be hands on, but you know when to trust engineers to execute
- You give continuous clear feedback to your direct reports. Engineers on your team know when they are below, meeting or exceeding expectations
- You excel at explaining technical concepts to anyone and everyone. People enjoy collaborating with you
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of engineers of mixed skill sets
- Responsible for the success of engineering product and initiatives
- Work with the team to scope, plan, and implement best-in-class software practices, procedures, and delivery
- Give continuous feedback to your team
- Contribute to implementation guidelines and execution strategy for your team's goals
- Collaborate with product managers, and engineering leaders on new features and enhancements
Qualifications
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- Experience managing engineering teams
- Experience architecting, writing and maintaining web or mobile applications and services
- Familiarity with a variety of popular frameworks like ReactJS, NodeJS, Java Spring, Python Flask
- Knowledge of modern CI/CD systems and methodologies
- Familiarity with popular cloud service providers and their offerings (GCP, AWS)
We encourage candidates who may not check all the boxes to apply
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