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 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
Responsibilities
- You would work in existing architecture that serves millions of requests via java web applications
- 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
Qualifications
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- Experience with architecting infrastructure in AWS
- Experience architecting, implementing and maintaining web server applications
- Experience with
- Familiarity with back end web application frameworks and open source tools
- Knowledge of modern CI/CD systems and methodologies
- Predisposition towards testing, instrumentation, and documentation.
- Familiarity with Javascript and NodeJS
We encourage candidates who may not check all the boxes to apply
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