The YUI Team is Looking for a World-Class Engineer to Work on Frontend CI, Build Systems, and QA

January 28, 2010 at 8:30 am by Eric Miraglia | In Development, Frontend Engineering Jobs at Yahoo | 13 Comments

Note: We have now hired for this position. Please check the YUI jobs page for additional YUI related jobs at Yahoo!

If working alongside people like Douglas Crockford and on the team that created YUI (Matt Sweeney, Adam Moore, Dav Glass, Jenny Donnelly, Luke Smith, Tripp Bridges, Allen Rabinovich, Alaric Cole, Satyen Desai, and others) sounds like a good way to spend your time, read on: We’re hiring.

We’re looking for a great engineer to help us improve every aspect of our continuous integration (CI) process, including the way we build, document, test, and deploy our code. To succeed in this role, you’ll have to be:

familiar with best practices in frontend engineering (e.g., this video should make good sense to you);
knowledgeable about the goals and principles of continuous integration;
interested in the emerging discipline of automated testing for frontend code (e.g. this video and the first half of this one should make sense to you, and projects like TestSwarm should be deeply interesting);
able to solve diverse problems with a heterogeneous set of technologies (e.g. DHTML/Python/Java/Ant/linux/PHP/JavaScript);
excited about creating a state-of-the art CI process for YUI and evangelizing it throughout Yahoo! and beyond.

YUI is an open source project, and many of the pieces you’ll be working with are part of the YUI ecosystem. That begins with our YUI Builder tools and extends to components of our existing CI process — tools like YUI Compressor, YUI Doc and YUI Test. You’ll have the opportunity to improve the tools themselves and to improve the way they’re documented and used.

The best part of any job in technology is having the chance to do influential work in an environment that both challenges and supports your growth. The YUI team provides just that confluence of characteristics: a huge, engaged community of users and developers and a team of brilliant engineers collaborating every day to improve the project.

If this sounds like your dream job, and if the people I mentioned above sound like people you’d want to work with every day, I’d love to hear from you. Tell me why you’re the right person for this role, including a link to your resume and professional portfolio, by emailing yui [dash] jobs [at] yahoo-inc.com. (Principals only; no recruiters.)

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13 Comments

when you say “world class” does that include the possibility to work from outside of the US ?

Comment by Jpvincent — January 28, 2010 #
jpvincent — No, this position will work out of Yahoo!’s Sunnyvale headquarters. -Eric

Comment by Eric Miraglia — January 28, 2010 #
Has this position potential for H1B support?

Comment by Dominic — January 29, 2010 #
Anything in the ATL ? :)

Comment by jminkler — February 2, 2010 #
Jarret — No, this position is in Sunnyvale. The weather in CA is beautiful, though. (Not in January, necessarily.) -Eric

Comment by Eric Miraglia — February 2, 2010 #
i would like to apply but does this support H1B :) thanks :)

Comment by Ericson — February 3, 2010 #
Ericson — No, we will not be sponsoring H1Bs for this position, unfortunately. -Eric

Comment by Eric Miraglia — February 3, 2010 #
Hey Im from Mexico, I would like to have a chance, but I don’t know how, Im 21 and I have about a year working with YUI, I wanna work for it… tell me If I could at Sunnyvale or maybe here in Mexico…THANKS

Comment by K2H — February 8, 2010 #
oO we have to be a front end engineer to apply? I have 2 years of performance engineering experience , 5 yrs of server side coding experience in java. I am very familiar with javascript too. Do I qualify?

Comment by indi — February 21, 2010 #
Sorry for typo..

Do we have to be front end engineers to apply? I have 2 years of performance engineering experience , 5 yrs of server side coding experience in java. I am very familiar with javascript too. Do I qualify?

Comment by indi — February 21, 2010 #
Wow, this is exactly my dream job.. but Y! won’t sponsor H1B for this pos..

Comment by Totti — February 26, 2010 #
@indi — If you can demonstrate your facility with frontend tools, I’d be happy to look at your resume — yui-jobs@yahoo-inc.com.

@Totti — To be clear, we don’t have any more we can sponsor for this cycle. It’s not a choice — we’d love to have more H-1B’s available.

-Eric

Comment by Eric Miraglia — February 26, 2010 #
Hi Eric,

I would like to apply for this position but my skills have been more in J2EE and Adobe Flex (UI) so far. I love to develop rich web applications as it changes the whole user experience. I like the expression of the users when they compare web 2.0 experience with old regular sites….. and they say Wow!

I have experienced how web 2.0 has opened a possibility to develop rich applications online without using Applets and activex.

I want to be a part of the team, who makes this web 2.0 magic happen… the team behind the scene.

I don’t know javascript much.. apart from writing small functions but I am willing to learn… do you think I can still apply for this position?

I am from Santa Clara and don’t need any sponsorship.

Comment by Vasundhara Agarwal — March 24, 2010 #

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