Yahoo · 16 hours ago
Senior Backend Engineer, Yahoo Weather
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$128K/yr - $267K/yrYahoo is a global media and technology company that reaches nearly 900 million people around the world. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to play a critical role in delivering real-time, actionable weather information to millions of users, collaborating with product engineers, product managers, and designers to enhance the Yahoo Weather product experience.
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Responsibilities
Design, implement, and deploy production backend services exposing well-defined APIs
Design APIs for RESTful and GraphQL interfaces, including versioning, authentication, and error handling
Handle performance debugging and tuning by identifying bottlenecks using profiling, metrics, and logs. Optimize latency, throughput, and resource usage
Own end-to-end services, including architecting, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting backend services in production
Production observability: implement logging, metrics, tracing, and alerts to support monitoring and incident response
Qualification
Required
Proficiency and production experience in one or more backend frameworks: Java Spring or Quarkus, Node.js with Express (or similar), or Python FastAPI (or similar)
Experience deploying and operating services in at least one public cloud provider (ex., AWS, GCP, Azure)
Practical experience with multi-threading, async processing, or event-driven models, including common pitfalls
Experience building or maintaining pipelines for ingesting, transforming, or validating data from external sources
Experience with SQL databases & NoSQL databases: modeling data, writing efficient queries and data access patterns, and recommending appropriate database engines
Comfortable reading, debugging, and extending Java codebases, even if not the primary language
Familiarity with automated build, test, and deployment pipelines for backend services
Experience applying caching strategies (ex. in-memory, distributed cache, HTTP caching) to improve performance
Preferred
Exposure to or interest in working with geospatial data and databases
Willingness to deepen expertise in advanced GraphQL patterns, including schema federation, performance optimization, or API governance
Willingness to grow experience in systems with high concurrency, streaming, or near-real-time requirements
BS in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent CS training
Located in the U.S. Eastern or UK Timezones
An interest in weather is a big plus
Benefits
Healthcare
A great 401k
Backup childcare
Education stipends
Much (much) more
Company
Yahoo
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Verizon Media.
Founded in 1994
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.8MKey Investors
SoftBank GroupSequoia Capital
2021-05-03Acquired
1996-04-12IPO
1995-11-30Series B· $4.8M
Leadership Team
Monica Vorn Mijaleski
Chief Financial Officer
Mike Gupta
SVP Finance / Chief Treasury Officer
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