at Yahoo! Inc. in Champaign, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Yahoo Finance is the world's #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity.
We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Engineering Manager who will lead multiple squads responsible for significant functional aspects of the Yahoo Finance experience. The ideal candidate will implement best practices in agile, continuous integration, and delivery to help the teams achieve high performance and unblock them when problems arise. The Senior Engineering Manager will also be responsible for team members' career growth and development while contributing technically to architecture, design, and implementation. Technical and management/organizational skills are equally valued for this role.
Responsibilities
- Engage, attract, and retain top talent
- Provide project and technical leadership to engineers in a fast-paced environment
- Drive technical excellence and implementation of best engineering practices
- Enforce design review, continuous integration and deployment
- Coordinate with partner teams when required, help unblock teams and resolve issues across teams
- Lead hands-on implementation work to keep current with technology trends inside and outside Yahoo
Qualifications
- BS degree in Computer Science with 10+ years of hands-on experience in delivering large-scale web applications
- 4+ years of management experience.
- Strong experience in JavaScript, HTML and CSS; Experience with javascript framework such as Svelte, React, and node.js or experience in developing a financial application would be a plus.
- Understanding of large scale web applications (clustering, scalability, caching, performance tuning).
- Understanding of agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, and agile engineering practices like Test-Driven Development, Continuous integration, and other Extreme programming practices.
- Proficient in a Unix/Linux environment, HTTP, Web services, GraphQL, and Restful API.
- Strong written and verbal communication 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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