Senior Full Stack​/Backend Engineer, Yahoo Finance

Senior Full Stack / Backend Engineer, Yahoo Finance (Finance)

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.

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.

• Bias for Action: You see problems, you solve them.
• Deeply Curious: Love understanding how software works "under the hood."
• Modular Thinker: Enjoy building backend blocks for larger solutions.
• Iterative & Pragmatic: Your first solution paves the way for something better.
• Customer-Focused: Whether it's external users or internal teams.
• End-to-End Ownership: Can take a service from idea to production (CI/CD included).
• Full-Stack Appreciation: Understand the interplay between frontend & backend.

• Development of next-generation features for Yahoo! Finance's Community Platform, with a primary focus on foundational backend services and capabilities that power our various products, while understanding and contributing to the full-stack architecture.
• Define, scope, plan, and implement best-in-class software practices, procedures, and delivery for backend and full-stack projects on the core platform.
• Define and contribute to implementation guidelines and execution strategy for your team's goals, considering the end-to-end user experience powered by the platform.
• Collaborate with your peers, product managers, designers, and engineering leaders on new features and enhancements across the technology stack.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, including those involving front-end technologies.

• BS in Computer Science or a related major, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of software development experience
  , with a focus on backend development and a strong understanding of full-stack principles.
• Experience with server-side languages (Java, Kotlin, Python, etc.)
• Proven experience developing RESTful, Graph
  
  QL, gRPC or equivalent APIs consumed by other teams or consumed by user-facing applications.
• Solid experience with SQL (Postgres, MySQL, etc.) and key-value stores / caching such as Redis.
• Demonstrable experience designing, developing, and deploying backend services and understanding their integration into larger, full-stack applications.
• While we build our front-end with Svelte and Svelte Kit (experience here is a definite plus!), we also value strong experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js, and a clear understanding of how they consume backend services.
• Well-versed in software development design patterns, code structure (both backend and an appreciation for front-end concerns), and debugging tools.
• Experience mentoring software engineers and leading by example in a collaborative, full-stack environment.
• Strong team player - you are genuinely interested in opposing opinions and can support your own perspectives with thoughtful reasoning, considering the entire system.
• Excellent listening and communication skills; able to…