Principal Engineer, Data Services

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 News’s Data Services team builds engaging, data-driven products that guide people through everyday life decisions. We help people achieve their goals by using data to contextualize and personalize the news, whether that’s helping you choose what shows to watch, discovering which restaurants are creating buzz on social media, or better understanding how inflation is hitting your grocery bill. We do so by creating helpful and delightful digital experiences, backed by robust data sets.

A Lot About You

You are an experienced engineer who welcomes the challenge of building new product experiences from the ground up. You are comfortable being one of the first members of a newly formed team. You love to collaborate with product designers to understand customer problems and deliver great user experiences. You are highly self-sufficient and also thrive when working together with teammates. You care about the whole product experience. You enjoy sprints as much as strategy. You are curious, driven and know how to find a work-life balance. 

Responsibilities:

• You’ll collaborate with a small team to design, define, build, and deliver new data services for Yahoo News. 

• We believe in learning through rapid prototyping. You’ll develop multiple early versions of new user interfaces or features, and will have to weigh the tradeoffs between quick development and future tech debt.

• We work with data sources in the form of both static datasets and APIs. You will need to be able to write code to efficiently access them to power the product experience.

• Code – you will spend most of your time doing front-end web development. You’ll be responsible for the technical execution of the product experience, including deciding the architecture, writing code using React, testing, refactoring, and bug fixing.  

• You’ll work with Yahoo’s engineering team to ensure that when we scale the products you build, they integrate seamlessly with our other systems, and any dependencies are well-managed.

• We value and depend on your input! You should actively share your opinions and help shape our technical direction, best practices, product ideas, and team processes. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience building and shipping across the web

• Proficiency in React

• Excellent coding chops, code design skills, and practitioner of web development best practices – including object-oriented design principles; design pattern usage; writing modular, reusable, testable code; data structures; concurrency; performance profiling and tuning

• Experience around building web features that scale, experience with caching and delivery

• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills

• The quintessential teammate -- great communicator, adaptable, supportive, hard working, and enjoys a good laugh

• An interest in data visualization and user interaction design is a plus

Please note: we encourage candidates who may not check all the boxes above to apply.

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 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 (

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The compensation for this position ranges from $136,125.00 - $283,750.00/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, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

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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