Senior Software Engineer

Description:

In this role, you will design, build, help evolve and maintain the data fetching ecosystem for all platforms. You will work on a cross-platform team that strives to deliver seamless developer experiences with a focus on performance, observability, reliability, scalability and security. Our customers are software engineers on all platforms at Yelp (backend, iOS, Android and Web), and our goal is to help them fetch data with faster iteration speeds and ship high quality features. You will collaborate closely with other engineers across Yelp to gather feedback to help create tooling and set best practices that scale. The decisions you make will have a significant impact on every product at Yelp. What we do is key to how Yelp is built, and we’d love for you to be part of it.

This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular area in Canada. We welcome applicants from throughout Canada. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

What you'll do:

• Build scalable APIs,tooling and infrastructure for data fetching and to support our web and backend engineers
• Scope, design and lead complex web or backend projects from conception to completion
• Evaluate the latest technologies used in industry and help update the team roadmap
• Contribute PRs back to open source where needed
• Write clear and concise technical documentation
• Mentor other engineers and share the skills you’ve learned

What it takes to succeed:

• Several years of web infrastructure or web platform experience.
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript.
• Experience working with data fetching in web apps (e.g. GraphQL, REST, Prisma, fetch, axios) on frontend and backend
• Experience with modern web tooling such as Webpack, Babel, Jest, Yarn
• Experience designing, building and maintaining systems at scale
• Ability to own a team project from scoping to implementation
• Passion for working on software infrastructure/platform teams/developer experience