Senior Frontend 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.

About the Role

This role owns the frontend technical direction and architecture for TW/HK search products, ensuring we deliver scalable, high-quality, and performant search experiences that enable end-to-end experimentation, modernization, and monetization at scale.

You will work closely with product managers, backend engineers, data analysts, and designers to translate product strategy and business goals into robust frontend platforms. You will continuously iterate on search products to create engaging, user-loved experiences. Beyond hands-on development, you will play a critical role in technical decision-making, mentoring engineers, and driving frontend excellence across the team.

About You

You are a frontend engineering leader who is passionate about building large-scale platforms and setting technical direction, not just shipping features. You care deeply about architecture, code quality, performance, and long-term maintainability, and you understand how frontend systems enable our search product velocity, experimentation, and business outcomes.

You are comfortable bridging product vision and technical execution, proactively identifying risks, trade-offs, and opportunities. You enjoy mentoring others, leading by example, and continuously raising the frontend engineering bar.

If you are excited about shaping the future of Yahoo Search experiences to the markets, and working with a team that values both technical rigor and collaboration, we’d love to talk to you.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of search products by setting technical direction, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring timely, high-quality execution across teams.

• Collaborated with Global Search and Platform teams in the US to deliver tailored search experiences and customized features for TW and HK markets.

• Analyze and evaluate technical options, select solutions with clear trade-offs between technical feasibility and business needs, and define phased implementation plans for overall product development

• Set and guide modern web engineering practices, technologies, and processes to ensure applications meet high standards for performance, scalability, usability, and maintainability.

• Lead a collaborative code review culture that promotes knowledge sharing, mentorship, and continuous improvement across the team

• Collaborate with other engineers to write testable, reliable code, continuously deploying to production systems

• Maintain, evolve, and promote a library of reusable web components as part of a scalable design system under Yahoo! Search products. 

• Continuously monitor, analyze, and drive improvements for large-scale web applications

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, or equivalent degree/experience

• 5+ years experience developing user interfaces for large scale web applications

• Deep technical knowledge of web application development with strong command of browser-side client technologies including AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript and object-oriented Javascript

• Experience with full stack JavaScript development with Node, Express, Next, Fastify, etc

• Experience with test driven development, functional testing, and unit test/UI test frameworks such as Jest, Cypress, Selenium, etc

• Experience with CI/CD best practices, including build, documentation, testing, and deployment.

• Experience enabling end-to-end product delivery, including A/B testing, analytics, and iterative improvement

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven history of being able to work and collaborate effectively with stakeholders in a remote environment

• Experience leading and collaborating with cross-functional teams across time zones is a strong plus.

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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.

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