Sr Backend Software Engineer

Yahoo Finance is the world’s #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity.

About Us:

Yahoo Finance is a leading business and financial news platform that helps users grow their wealth, with unrivaled access to financial data, insights and editorial content. Yahoo Finance has a user base of 150M global unique monthly users that return to our platform stay up-to-the-minute with the latest financial news and information.

As a Sr Software Engineer, you will actively contribute to building an AI platform for LLM-powered content generation, processing, and serving within the Yahoo Finance AI team. You will focus on writing high-quality, performant code and collaborating with team members to deliver a seamless experience across Yahoo Finance products.

*This is a hybrid position based in the SF Bay Area, requiring 2 days per week in-office.

Your Responsibilities:

• Write production and prototype code for various system components, ensuring high performance and scalability.

• Build APIs to facilitate integration and usage of the AI platform.

• Write high-quality, performant code in Python, Java, or other languages on Cloud environments.

• Develop and maintain unit, functional, and end-to-end integration tests. Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality.

• Collaborate with product and engineering leads to implement new features and infrastructure improvements.

• Mentor junior engineers on coding practices and development workflows.

Key Qualifications:

• Strong computer science foundations, including data structures, algorithms, programming languages (Python, Java), databases, distributed systems, and information retrieval.

• 3+ years of real-world experience with a strong focus on writing production code.

• Deep functional knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, RESTful Web Services, Containerization (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes).

• Strong coding background with a proven track record of writing high-quality, maintainable code.

• Excellent understanding of networking, I/O, and Linux/Unix environments.

• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration within the team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building AI applications, particularly those involving LLMs.

• Proficiency in Cloud orchestrations and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Familiarity with Machine Learning and Deep Learning concepts.

• Experience with time series analysis and financial datasets.

• Experience with finetuning ML/DL models.

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome.

The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/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. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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