Sr Software Development Engineer

Yahoo Inc.; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Ireland seeks a Back End Engineer to architect scalable systems and enhance financial product offerings. Candidates must have over 7 years of experience in large data processing and strong coding skills, especially in Java. This hybrid role involves mentoring junior developers and collaborating with cross-functional teams. A flexible work schedule is offered, accommodating office presence as needed.

Benefits

Flexible work schedule

Mentorship opportunities

Work on cutting-edge technologies

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years industry experience as a Back End Engineer.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Strong coding background with modern programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design scalable and maintainable strategic solutions.
• Lead key team initiatives and manage the software development lifecycle.
• Mentor junior engineers in building production-grade systems.

Skills

Backend large data processing

Distributed systems

API design

Java

AWS environments

Containerization technology

Education

BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science or related major

Tools

Docker

GIT

Gradle

Job description

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.*Hybrid role 1-2 days in office - Dublin*****About Yahoo****Yahoo is a leading provider of media and technology brands, reaching over a billion people around the world. Yahoo’s Media Engineering organization uses the latest technologies to build brands our members love. Our brands include Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Mail, Search and many more. They reach hundreds of millions of users so we are focused on building everything at a massive scale. We strive to create world-class user experiences for our valued members, delivering up to the minute, trusted content and data across all of our brands. In order to support this, our teams build the best in breed tools, APIs, utilities and services using bleeding edge technologies at scale.At Yahoo Finance, we power experiences for millions of users globally every month and remain the clear leader in our category. Our systems scale to processing 5 billion market events per day from over 80 global exchanges. We are the largest business, financial information and tools app/site in the world, with unrivaled access to data, insights, tools and original editorial content. Under a new leadership team, we have recommitted to building and revitalizing this essential, trusted resource for investors and savers.****About The Role****We are looking for an experienced engineer with a proven track record of building world class scalable systems that exceed customer needs while achieving business goals. In this position, you will collaborate closely with Engineering, Product and Design teams to enhance our expanding range of product offerings. Additionally, you will develop applications and tools essential for effectively supporting our overall business operations and ensuring the quality of our data and services. This role will be directly responsible for architecting, designing, scoping, building, maintaining and iterating on the underlying systems needed to deliver world class finance products and features. ****Responsibilities:***** Be part of an agile scrum team and demonstrate constant progress through proof of concept, sandboxing and prototyping* Architect and design scalable, maintainable, secure and reusable strategic solutions* Design and implement frameworks and tools that empower other developers and non-technical colleagues across your entire team* Estimate timelines, perform task breakdown, scoping, design, implementation for mid-to-large scale products and complex multi-month deliverables with insightful strategic approaches* Lead key team initiatives from start to finish by managing and improving the entire software development life cycle* Seek opportunities in our day-to-day workflow and process to improve quality and efficiency from initial ideation to deployment* Present and communicate across multiple groups to showcase progress, share knowledge and evangelize best practices* Performing code reviews for your peers where they will learn from your experience and guidance contributing to collaborative working models* Recommend approaches to solving complex problems and use new technologies to achieve goals* Own, deploy, monitor, and operate large-scale production systems distributed across the globe.* Develop systems that perform data acquisition and processing for new data feeds* Take ownership of existing data feed and data processing systems* Lead and mentor junior engineers in the process of building production grade systems and applications which scale and perform* Act as technical liaison to business teams to translate business needs to work streams and technical solutions****Requirements:***** BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science or a related major* Minimum of 7 years industry experience as a Back End Engineer* Excellent communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills* Ability to demonstrate understanding and enthusiasm for the Finance industry, along with a strong commitment to creating must-have products and services for our millions of valued customers* Strong coding background with experience writing production grade code which is clean, maintainable and performant* Experience working on backend large data processing and/or serving systems* Excellent experience architecting, building and maintaining complex software systems and/or web applications* High proficiency with several of the following: distributed systems, domain driven design, API design, multiple database systems, data engineering, performance tuning, content delivery, page performance optimization, multiple programming languages and functional/Unit/Performance testing frameworks* Knowledge of administering database/caching technologies like Redis/MemoryDB, mySQL, DynamoDB on AWS infrastructure* Experience setting up and working with AWS environments and building applications using AWS native services* Experience with containerization technology (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)* Experience with version control tools (GIT) and build managers (Gradle)* Strong grasp of OWASP security principles and how they apply to all application types* Deep functional knowledge and hands on experience with the following technologies (or equivalent); Java, J2EE, Spring, RESTful Web Services, Apache Storm, Apache Spark, GraphQL, Kubernetes, AWS S3, Elastic Search, Apache Flink, AWS EMR, AirFlow, Pulsar, Kafka, Kinesis* Strong programming fundamentals in Data Structures and Algorithms and knowledge of Object Oriented design paradigms.* Experience building Big Data Processing/Ingestion pipelines* Strong system design skills especially involving modern distributed systems* Strong data modeling skillsYahoo 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 will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. 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 () or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.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.