Hybrid role 2 days in office - Bay Area
A little About Us:
Yahoo Finance is the largest business and financial information and tools app/site in the world, with unrivaled access to data, insights, tools, and original editorial content. Under a new leadership team, we have recommitted to building and revitalizing this essential, trusted resource for investors and savers.
Join Yahoo Finance Engineering – help us design and build various systems that power our products.
This role is for the Yahoo Finance Data Platform team. The team is responsible for building and enhancing systems that ingest and process real-time and batch data from various feed providers for the data presented on Yahoo Finance.
On a day-to-day basis, the engineer will work on various tasks involving feed acquisition, processing, and building/enhancing systems to power products and/or features. This will involve writing code, debugging, enhancing existing code, and designing data models to store data efficiently to power various product use cases.
Responsibilities:
Write code to perform data acquisition and processing for new data feeds
Take ownership of existing data feeds and data processing systems
Execute the modernization initiatives underway in the team
Build new components, and platforms as needed for powering product initiatives
A lot About You:
Demonstrated industry experience building backend systems
Experience working on real-time and/or batch-feed processing systems
Experience with databases
5+ years of industry experience
Masters/Bachelors in Computer Science (or a related technical field)
Strong system design skills especially involving modern distributed systems
Strong data modeling skills
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.Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.
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