Senior Software Engineer - AI-Driven Intelligence Team

Yext; Washington (District of Columbia); Presencial; USD 190.000 - 262.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Yext in the Rosslyn, VA office is hiring a senior software engineer for Team Recon, focusing on the customer-facing intelligence layer of our Competitive Intelligence product area. Recon builds insights from AI-enabled data, with a focus on analysis, visualizations, and user interfaces.

This role emphasizes leading complex production systems, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with Product and Engineering leadership to translate priorities into technical plans.

Formación

• A BA/BS in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent college-level education.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• A track record of leading significant technical projects and delivering complex production systems.
• Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and supporting the growth of less-experienced team members.
• Experience supervising or managing software engineers, or demonstrated readiness to take on direct-report responsibilities.
• Deep technical judgment and a strong foundation in software architecture, design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience designing software systems, evaluating competing approaches, and communicating technical decisions clearly to other engineers.
• The ability to remain deeply hands-on while also guiding the technical work of others.
• Experience diagnosing difficult production problems and leading technical incident response.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including experience working across engineering teams and with Product or other business partners.
• Fluency with Java, Go, C++, Python, or a similar programming language (we code primarily in Java and Go)
• Experience recruiting, interviewing, or evaluating software engineers.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and the ability to critically evaluate their output as part of a responsible engineering workflow.
• Sound judgment regarding data privacy, intellectual property, security, and the appropriate use of confidential information when working with AI tools.
• Openness to new technologies, new ways of working, and creative solutions.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment.

Responsabilidades

• Serve as a technical leader for the team while continuing to contribute directly to the design, implementation, and operation of production software.
• Own complex development efforts from problem definition and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operation.
• Design sound technical solutions, write and review technical designs, and guide architectural and implementation decisions within the team's systems.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to translate product priorities into technical plans, identify dependencies and risks, and help determine how the team should approach the work.
• Break complex technical initiatives into clear, manageable pieces and help guide engineers through successful delivery.
• Solve difficult technical problems independently and provide guidance when other engineers encounter challenges.
• Foster a high bar for engineering quality through thoughtful design discussions, code reviews, testing, operational readiness, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor and share knowledge with other engineers, helping less-experienced teammates strengthen their technical skills and judgment.
• Lead production incident response and follow-up, helping the team diagnose complex problems, restore service, and make improvements that prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate with engineers and partners across teams to solve technical problems and coordinate work that spans multiple systems or product areas.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve our products, architecture, systems, and engineering practices, and help drive those improvements to completion.
• Participate actively in recruiting and interviewing, helping us identify and hire strong engineers and maintain a high technical bar.
• Use AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully throughout design, research, implementation, testing, debugging, and code review.
• Critically evaluate and validate AI-generated output, maintaining ownership of its correctness, security, scalability, maintainability, and alignment with engineering standards.
• Model effective AI-enabled engineering practices, experiment with new capabilities and workflows, and share successful approaches with other engineers.

Conocimientos

Java/Go/C++/Python

Leadership/Mentoring

Incident response

AI-assisted development tools

Educación

BA/BS in Computer Science or related field

Herramientas

AI-assisted development tools

Descripción del empleo

Yext in the Rosslyn, VA office is hiring a senior software engineer for Team Recon, focusing on the customer-facing intelligence layer of our Competitive Intelligence product area. Recon builds insights from AI-enabled data, with a focus on analysis, visualizations, and user interfaces.

This role emphasizes leading complex production systems, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with Product and Engineering leadership to translate priorities into technical plans.