Frontend Engineer, E-Commerce

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to build excellent web pages, write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will greatly impact our business—and the world. 

A Lot About You

Are you passionate about e-commerce and technology? Do you like to take challenges and solve difficult problems? Do you want to have the satisfaction that millions of users use your product every day?

If the answer is yes, this is the place for you. Yahoo provides a stage for people to learn and build state-of-the-art internet products that are the daily habits of people worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Plan, design, develop, and test components of UI systems to deliver business requirements.

• Collaborate with designers on creating modern and easy-to-use experiences for our customers.

• Work with the team on full­-stack implications while delivering product requirements and improving full­-stack performance.

• Drive technical excellence in the team by delivering high-quality code and performing peer reviews to maintain code standards.

• Extensive collaboration with product, engineering, and operations teams to deliver new products.

• Interact with smart and talented engineers from different regions

• Create technically excellent software iteratively using agile methods.

• Participate in product roadmap discussions and identify key areas for improvement in the product and incorporate these goals into ongoing & future development initiatives.

• Work in a fun and innovative environment

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related Engineering discipline with a good understanding of data structures and algorithms

• Strong command of browser-side client technologies including HTML, CSS, and ECMAScript

• Solid experience and passion for building highly interactive and efficient web applications using Javascript, CSS, HTML, AJAX, JSON, and React

• Familiar with frontend Single Page Applications (SPA) development or with frameworks such as React, Redux, NEXT.js, GraphQL; and building server-side applications using Node.js.

• Recognize backend standards such as RESTful API

• Experience with web development testing frameworks and test runners

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, multitasking environment

• Fast learner and strong sense of ownership of all the platforms and products

• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills

• Strong understanding of product quality and performance standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent communication, and should be able to communicate with various teams

• Experience in demonstrated industry is highly desirable

• Ability to take initiative and be innovative

• Fluency in English is a plus

• Experience in cloud computing

• Agile/Scrum process is preferred

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 (

) or call . 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.

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