Senior Principal Front-end Engineer, Yahoo News Id-2757

Job Description

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.

A little About Us:
Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love-from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news-with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.

At Yahoo News, we are laser-focused on making discovery delightful and becoming the world's best curator for our 35 million daily users and expanding our distribution to more platforms to meet millions more users where they are. Building the best guide to the Internet (and the world) requires building the best team.

Who You Are
  • You have a bias for action. When you see problems, you solve them.
  • You are extremely curious. You are constantly interested in how the software you interact with works "under the hood."
  • You are customer focused-regardless of whether the customer is an external user or an internal team.
  • You excel at explaining technical concepts to anyone and everyone. People enjoy collaborating with you.
  • You know that writing code isn't the end of the process, and you delight in understanding how that code is running in production, looking at metrics, and planning improvements

Responsibilities
  • Work with engineers, designers, product and stakeholders to execute on the new vision for Yahoo.com and the Yahoo News website
  • Design technical solutions for complex problems and lead the implementation
  • Review your teammates' work for quality and provide mentoring, coaching
  • Help to scope, plan, and implement best-in-class software practices, procedures, and delivery
  • Contribute to implementation guidelines and execution strategy for your team's goals


Qualifications
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or related field
  • 6+ years experience in software development with Javascript, ReactJS or other modern JS framework
  • Demonstrated problem solving skills and taking initiatives
  • Proficiency with React and modern React testing frameworks (e.g., React Testing Library, Enzyme)
  • Familiarity with JS linting tools (e.g., ESLint)
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Proven experience with launching and managing web applications


Preferred
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration tools
  • Familiarity with TurboRepo for managing monorepos
  • Experience with NGINX as a web server and reverse proxy
  • Knowledge of AWS ECS Fargate for container orchestration
  • Experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines
  • Proficiency in troubleshooting network errors and debugging issues
  • Strong understanding of Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) and its implementation
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