It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. 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.
- The Location Platforms team is responsible for all services related to the processing and serving of location-centric entities, predicting and processing user location, and the contextual intersection of these two spaces, including geopolitical relationship mapping, forward and reverse geoÂcoding and routing, pointÂ-of-Âinterest catalog and search, movement data contextual enrichment, etc. These services are embedded across the footprint of the network in applications like Web Search, Ads Targeting, Content Personalization, Mail Inbox Commerce, etc., while also producing aggregate data for campaign insights and business intelligence.
In support of these goals, the Location team builds highly scalable near real-time, backÂ-office and frontÂ-stage systems backed by IP intelligence, best-known GeoInformation and Statistical/MachineÂ-learned models that have access to large-scale data from user activities and interactions. This requires software development engineers skilled in the disciplines of big data manipulation using distributed computing technologies, data mining, statistical analysis, machine-Âlearned modeling, and the domain knowledge to support these models.
Responsibilities:
- Be part of an agile scrum team and demonstrate constant progress through proof of concept, sandboxing and prototyping
- Architect and design scalable, maintainable, secure and reusable strategic solutions
- Requirements (must have):
- BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science or a related major
- Minimum of 5 years industry experience as a full-stack engineer
- processes
- Strong programming skills in Java; Scala preferred.
- Micro Service API - Java, Spring
- Front-End Stack—React, Svelte, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Node.js
- Experience architecting and implementing large-scale, highly integrated, distributed data acquisition, ingestion, publishing, storing and serving systems
- Ability to implement multi-layered, scaled applications using AWS native services
- Advantageous to have the following:
- Experience with big data technologies, such as Spark, Hadoop, and Airflow
- Experience with containerization technology (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)
- Design and implement frameworks and tools that empower other developers and non-technical colleagues across your entire team
- Estimate timelines, perform task breakdown, scoping, design, implementation for mid-to-large scale products and complex multi-month deliverables with insightful strategic approaches
- Lead key team initiatives from start to finish by managing and improving the entire software development life cycle
- Seek opportunities in our day-to-day workflow and process to improve quality and efficiency from initial ideation to deployment
- Present and communicate across multiple groups to showcase progress, share knowledge and evangelize best practices
- Performing code reviews for your peers, where they will learn from your experience and guidance, contributes to collaborative working models
- Recommend approaches to solving complex problems and use new technologies to achieve goals
- Own, deploy, monitor, and operate large-scale production systems distributed across the globe.
- Lead and mentor junior engineers in the process of building production-grade systems and applications which scale and perform
- Act as technical liaison to business teams to translate business needs to work streams and technical solutions
Important notes for your attention
Applications:
All applicants must apply for Yahoo openings direct with Yahoo. We do not authorize any external agencies in India to handle candidates’ applications. No agency nor individual may charge candidates for any efforts they make on an applicant’s behalf in the hiring process.
Our internal recruiters will reach out to you directly to discuss the next steps if we determine that the role is a good fit for you. Selected candidates will go through formal interviews and assessments arranged by Yahoo direct.
Offer Distributions:
Our electronic offer letter and documents will be issued through our system for e-signatures, not via individual emails.
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