Principal Backend Software Engineer

Yahoo Holdings Inc. in; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Yahoo Finance seeks a Principal Backend Software Engineer to lead the vision for AI platform components, enhancing products designed for financial decision-making. The role involves collaborating with key stakeholders, mentoring junior engineers, and writing production-quality code to optimize services that engage millions of users globally.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid work options

Healthcare benefits

401k

Education stipends

Qualifications

• 5+ years of real-world experience with a strong focus on platform engineering.
• Familiarity with stream processing technologies like Flink.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the vision for AI platform components.
• Write production-quality code in Python and Java.
• Collaborate with product leads to drive development.

Skills

data structures

algorithms

programming languages

Python

Java

distributed systems

information retrieval

networking

I/O

Linux/Unix

Education

MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Docker

ECS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Principal Backend Software Engineer (Finance)

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.

About Us:

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.

Yahoo Finance is a leading business and financial news platform that helps users grow their wealth, with unrivaled access to financial data, insights and editorial content. Yahoo Finance has a user base of 150M global unique monthly users that return to our platform stay up-to-the-minute with the latest financial news and information.

About You:

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will have an opportunity to collaborate/engage with key stakeholders in defining an exciting and ambitious forward-looking strategy for the AI platform of Yahoo Finance. You will be part of a highly motivated, energetic team, building an amazing platform for LLM powered content generation, processing, and serving. You will be working on enabling Yahoo Finance products to deliver quality experience.

Your Responsibilities:

• Define and lead the vision and architecture for building platform components for AI pipelines, databases, and user-facing API endpoints.
• Write production and prototype code for various system components.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leads across Yahoo Finance to gather requirements and drive the development of new features and infrastructure upgrades.
• Mentor junior engineers.
• Participate in a learning culture through design discussions and code reviews.
• Build APIs and design client SDKs.
• Write high-quality, performant code in Python, Java, or similar languages on Linux.
• Write unit, functional, and end-to-end integration tests and participate in design and code reviews.
• Collaborate effectively as both a visionary leader and a team player/individual contributor.

Key Qualifications:

• Strong computer science fundamentals (MS or equivalent in CS) : data structures, algorithms, programming languages, Python, Java, distributed systems and information retrieval
• 5+ years for real world experience with a strong focus on platform engineering
• Familiarity with stream processing technologies like Flink and data management tools like Airtable, in addition to Hadoop, Storm, and related ecosystems.
• Deep functional knowledge and hands on experience with: AWS cloud services, RESTful Web Services, Containerization (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes), IaC (Terraform)
• An excellent understanding of networking, I/O, and Linux/Unix
• Strong coding background; experience writing production code
• Excellent communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building AI applications
• Familiarity with Machine Learning and Deep Learning concepts
• Familiarity/Experience with time series analysis
• Advanced Data Science skills
• Experience with time series analysis
• Familiarity with financial datasets (such as Company Fundamentals, Options and Level2 market data)
• Experience with finetuning ML/DL models

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 $143,625.00 - $299,375.00/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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