Sr. Software Engineer, Yahoo! 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.

We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer as Yahoo Finance undergoes a period of rapid innovation and expansion. This role will be a key contributor to the platform powering Yahoo Finance’s rapidly growing Investor Community.

You will design and build next-generation platform capabilities and user-facing experiences, balancing pragmatic and innovative approaches across frontend and backend systems. This role emphasizes ownership across the stack, from UI implementation to backend services and data layers.

You will work closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to build high-quality features that help users make more informed investment decisions.

Who You Are

• Bias for Action: You favor progress over analysis paralysis and learn by building, shipping, and iterating.

• Deeply Curious: You enjoy understanding how software works under the hood and seek clarity beyond surface behavior.

• Modular Thinker: You design composable, well defined building blocks that fit into larger systems.

• Iterative & Pragmatic: You treat initial solutions as a foundation for continuous improvement.

• Customer Focused: You consider the needs of both external users and internal teams when making decisions.

• End to End Ownership: You take responsibility for work from idea through production, including testing, deployment, monitoring, and measuring impact.

• Full Stack Minded: You understand how frontend and backend systems interact and make thoughtful trade offs across the stack.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate features across the frontend, backend, and data layers.

• Build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power user-facing functionality.

• Own the development of user facing interfaces using modern frontend frameworks, with a focus on performance, accessibility, and maintainability.

• Work closely with product managers and designers to translate requirements into practical, well executed solutions.

• Help shape architectural decisions and technical direction across the stack.

• Maintain a high bar for code quality and system reliability through testing, code reviews, and sound operational practices.

• Mentor and support other engineers while contributing to a collaborative, high performing team.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.

• Strong experience building and operating backend services using one or more modern programming languages.

• Experience designing and maintaining APIs consumed by user-facing applications.

• Experience working with relational and document databases in production.

• Hands on experience building production user interfaces using modern frontend frameworks.

• Solid understanding of frontend fundamentals, including browser behavior, performance considerations, and accessibility.

• Experience operating software in production, including testing, deployment, and ongoing support.

• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and code organization skills.

• Any experience in using AI to develop code and solve problems is a huge plus!

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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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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