Backend Engineer

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

Commerce is a fast-growing business for Yahoo. We are expanding our US Commerce Catalog team to help consumers worldwide save time and money. We build and scale highly performant, reliable, and secure backend platforms, APIs, and systems that power diverse commercial experiences. As we enter the next phase of growth, we are looking for talented engineers who are eager to build high-quality software using modern tools and operational best practices.

A Lot About You

As a Backend Engineer, you are a core technical member of the team. You are a "Career Professional" who can work independently with minimal guidance on feature development and system enhancements. You have a solid grasp of software engineering principles, a commitment for high-quality code, and an interest in using AI and DevOps practices to deliver value faster and more reliably.

Your Focus & Impact

• Feature Ownership: Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs for commerce products. You take responsibility for the full development lifecycle of a feature or workstream.

• AI-Enhanced Productivity: Proficiently utilize AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate your own coding, testing, and debugging processes while maintaining high code quality.

• AI-first: Experience using AI to overcome development bottlenecks

• Operational Excellence (DevOps): Participate in the "You Build It, You Run It" culture. You will help manage CI/CD pipelines, monitor service health, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure system reliability.

• Technical Collaboration: Act as a resource for less experienced colleagues. Participate actively in code reviews and design discussions to ensure the team’s technical standards are met.

• Problem Solving: Develop solutions to moderately complex problems and take a new perspective on existing solutions to improve performance or maintainability.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience: BS/M.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent) and 5+ years of professional experience in backend software development.

• Technical Proficiency: Strong programming skills in at least one general-purpose programming language (Java, Python, Scala).

• System Implementation: Proven experience in developing and deploying production-grade microservices or distributed systems.

• Modern Tooling: Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and a willingness to integrate them into your daily workflow.

• DevOps Practice: Experience with containerization, version control, understanding of CI/CD, and cloud environments (AWS/GCP).

• CS Fundamentals: Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and database management (SQL or NoSQL).
 

Preferred Qualifications

• Java Focus: Experience with Spring Boot or similar Java frameworks.

• Cloud Environments: Familiar with AWS services. 

• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes.

• Observability: Experience using monitoring tools like Grafana, or Splunk.

• Agile Mindset: Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment and contributing to team-level process improvements.

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.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements. 

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.