Fullstack Sr Software Dev Engineer

Yahoo; United States; Hybrid; USD 128,250 - 266,875; Full time

Job summary

Yahoo seeks a Senior Full Stack Software Dev Engineer to build secure, scalable Customer Care systems serving hundreds of millions of users. You will own features end-to-end and collaborate with PMs, UX designers, and security engineers in an AI-enabled workflow.

Expect to lead AI-assisted development, mentor teammates, and uphold stringent security and performance standards while delivering high-impact capabilities across Yahoo’s identity and care platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5–8 years of professional full-stack software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience using Java for robust, secure backend services.
• Experience building responsive, high-performance web applications using React.js, Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Next.js.
• Fundamentals in system design, RESTful APIs, distributed systems, and web security protocols.
• Proven expertise in prompt engineering and AI-driven development environments.
• Experience integrating AI-assisted developer tools into day-to-day workflows.
• Ability to audit and debug AI-generated outputs for accuracy and security.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-scale Customer Care and Identity systems using React, TypeScript, and Java/Node.js with a strong focus on security and availability.
• Lead an AI-first development workflow within the squad, utilizing precise markdown specifications to drive AI-assisted code generation, while validating and securing all outputs.
• Own complex full-stack features end-to-end, from initial requirements and design to production monitoring and operations.
• Mentor engineers across the squad, conducting design sessions and reviews to raise engineering standards.
• Audit, validate, and debug AI-generated code to prevent errors, hallucinations, or security vulnerabilities.

Skills

5–8 years exp

Java backend

React/TypeScript

RESTful APIs

AI prompt engineering

AI tooling integration

Security minded

CI/CD & testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

OAuth/OIDC

Cursor

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Overview

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

Membership platforms at Yahoo provide modern, secure identity offerings for consumers and businesses interacting with Yahoo systems. These platforms operate at massive scale, serving hundreds of millions of users every day, and power critical authentication, authorization, account management, privacy, wallet and loyalty capabilities across Yahoo products that leverage an AI-assisted support experience and a world-class, cost-effective Yahoo Global Customer Care team.

As part of Yahoo’s transition to an AI-First engineering model, teams increasingly leverage AI-assisted development environments combined with Spec-Driven Development (SDD) workflows, to accelerate delivery while maintaining high engineering quality.

About The Role

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Dev Engineer who is ready to build the next generation of secure, scalable Customer Care systems that serve hundreds of millions of users globally. As a Senior Professional, you possess specialized depth in full-stack architecture and a commitment to modern, AI-augmented engineering practices.

In this role, you will work independently with guidance only in complex situations, owning critical features and acting as a technical resource for your peers. A core expectation of this role is the ability to collaborate effectively with generative AI systems—using structured specs, deep codebase context, and prompt modeling to guide high-quality software implementation. We seek engineers who possess an experimentation-forward mindset and view AI as a force multiplier for architectural excellence and team-wide productivity.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-scale Customer Care and Identity systems using React, TypeScript, and Java/Node.js with a strong focus on security and availability.
• Lead an AI-first development workflow within the squad, utilizing precise markdown specifications to drive AI-assisted code generation (such as Cursor and Claude Code), while taking ownership of the validation, testing, and safety of all generated assets.
• Own complex full-stack features end-to-end, from initial technical requirements and system design to production monitoring and operational excellence.
• Proactively identify and implement AI-driven efficiencies in your daily engineering workflows, replacing repetitive manual tasks with structured automation, custom templates, and AI-assisted testing.
• Optimize system performance and reliability by diagnosing systemic bottlenecks and proactively implementing AI-assisted performance profiling and diagnostics.
• Mentor engineers across the squad, raising engineering standards through peer reviews, detailed design sessions, and scaling modern AI-first development best practices.
• Exercise critical technical judgment to audit, validate, and debug AI-generated code outputs, ensuring all implementations meet Yahoo's rigorous security and performance standards.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Managers, UX Designers, Security Engineers, and adjacent Yahoo product squads to coordinate complex technical integrations.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5–8 years of professional full-stack software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on engineering experience using Java for robust, secure backend services.
• Experience building responsive, high-performance web applications using React.js, Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks (e.g., Next.js).
• Strong fundamentals in system design, RESTful APIs, distributed systems, and web security protocols.
• Proven expertise in prompt engineering, context modeling, and structured interaction with AI development environments to build and refactor production-grade systems.
• Demonstrated experience integrating AI-assisted developer tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) into day-to-day software development workflows.
• Proven capability to critically evaluate, audit, and debug AI-generated outputs, ensuring the detection of errors, hallucinations, or security vulnerabilities.
• Deep experience with testing frameworks, modern CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining high codebase standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or maintaining high-scale Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems, auth protocols (OAuth, OIDC, SAML), or web security standards.
• Experience with CRM and CMS tool integrations.
• Cloud platform experience (GCP, AWS) and infrastructure-as-code.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, DataDog) and client/server performance profiling.
• Experience with structured development methodologies, such as Spec-Driven Development (SDD), API-first design, or AI-assisted diagnostic tools.
• Exposure to web accessibility (WCAG) and internationalization (i18n).

What Success Looks Like

• Consistently deliver high-quality, high-impact features independently, ensuring secure and seamless experiences for hundreds of millions of users.
• Masterfully leverage AI-assisted tools to significantly compress development lifecycles while maintaining an ultra-high bar for security compliance and test coverage.
• Raise overall engineering standards by contributing to system architecture discussions, documenting clear technical specifications, and mentoring junior squad members.
• Accelerate squad velocity by sharing innovative, repeatable ways to integrate AI workflows into daily development, testing, and troubleshooting activities

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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 will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. 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 +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome.

The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/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. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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