We believe Yahoo is the best place to work in Champaign.
Yahoo is one of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we require massively scalable, distributed, high performance, and efficient software systems. If you want to help solve complex software problems for systems like these, we are looking for you.
Yahoo’s Advertising & Data Systems team is one of the biggest online data & advertising programs in the world. It allows advertisers to reach the masses through Yahoo and partner networks. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable ad platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team in Champaign, Illinois where you will have the opportunity to help develop high speed advertising data solutions from data collection to large scale data manipulation to long term data storage and low-latency retrieval systems.
We are looking for software engineers at various experience levels to analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.
All the engineers at our Champaign location share these characteristics:
- A solid Computer Science foundation in data structures and algorithms, object oriented programming, and modern software engineering practices from their achievement of obtaining a degree in CS or a similar engineering pursuit. All of our engineers have undergraduate degrees while others have graduate degrees, including several with doctorates
- Experience working with Unix or Linux systems
- Excellent debugging and testing skills
- Excellent knowledge of technology and product trends including knowledge of what is happening in Open Source and in other parts of the software development industry
- The ability to work with large-scale distributed systems
- Solid written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent problem solving and multitasking skills
- Great team-working capabilities in an agile development environment
- The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world
Well-qualified candidates have an excellent knowledge of
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Unix, deployment, performance, debugging, refactoring, design patterns, and other programming practices.
- Familiar with frontend Single Page Applications (SPA) development or with frameworks such as Ember, React, or Angular.
- Familiar with building server side applications and tools using Node.js.