Senior Lead/Manager, Backend and ML Engineering, Yahoo Commerce

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 Yahoo Commerce

The Yahoo Commerce team’s mission is to help our audience of 600M monthly active users discover and make informed decisions about products and services so they can save time and money. We primarily serve audiences who are in their shopping journeys across all Yahoo properties. We work directly with our partners to reach new audiences, gain new users, and drive GMV through leveraging our ecosystem of products and services. 

About You

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Lead/Manager who will lead multiple squads responsible for significant functional aspects of the Yahoo Commerce experience. The ideal candidate has a bias for action, excels at explaining technical concepts to anyone and everyone, and is constantly interested in how the applications we build work “under the hood". You are customer focused–regardless of whether the customer is an external user or an internal team member. You can easily tie engineering objectives to business goals and deliver outcomes that move the business forward. You take pride in your team members' career growth and development and you provide continuous clear feedback. You are able to write code from time to time, although that is not a day to day part of this role.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of engineers with mixed skill sets, providing clear leadership and direction

• Work closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to drive outcomes

• Lead a team of engineers designing scalable, maintainable, and secure strategic solutions

• Researching ML systems, models, and schemes and collaborating with your team and other teams to implement and integrate into new and existing systems

• Understanding business objectives and developing ML models that help to achieve them

• Developing strategies for training and retraining ML systems and models as needed

• Develop team members through coaching, direct and indirect mentorship

• Act as technical liaison to business teams to translate business needs to work streams and technical solutions

• Lead team initiatives from start to finish by managing and improving the entire software development life cycle

• Present and communicate across multiple groups to influence decisions, share knowledge, and solve organizational problems

• Collect, analyze and convert data into engineering and business insights

• Responsible for the success of both engineering and product led initiatives

• Accurately prioritize and assign tasks according to business goals

• Accountable for the performance and results of the team

• Engage, attract, and retain top talent

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

• 3+ years of experience leading or managing engineering teams

• 6+ years experience in software development

• High proficiency with the following; distributed systems, API design & development, and ML engineering

• Familiarity with a variety of frameworks like Java, Python etc

• Knowledge of modern CI/CD systems and methodologies

• Exposure to large-scale data processing technologies like Kafka, Spark, Oozie and Hadoop

• Familiarity with popular cloud service providers and their offerings (AWS, GCP)

• Understanding of large-scale web applications (clustering, scalability, caching, performance tuning)

• Experience integrating LLM APIs into new or existing software applications

• Interest in, or experience with, prototyping and creating production-ready applications based on generative AI

• Experience with various OpenAI tools and frameworks

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

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 $143,625.00 - $299,375.00/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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