Blog: Category ‘Frontend Jobs at Yahoo’

YUI Is Hiring

We’re looking for a senior front-end engineer to join the YUI team! You must be an expert at JavaScript and well-versed in various front-end technologies. You love solving complex problems at massive scale, know what it takes to design robust and intuitive APIs, and embrace the best practices of performance, security, accessibility, and usability. You also have excellent communication skills, possess great attention to detail, and are independent and resourceful.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

  • Expert-level JavaScript, HTML, and CSS skills.
  • Demonstrated experience building reusable JS components that are modular, performant, and maintainable.
  • A passion for building and evangelizing a world-class front-end library that impacts millions of people every day.
  • Familiarity with open-source software projects, especially YUI.
  • Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Job Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated depth of expertise in one or more front-end domains such as mobile, performance, server-side JavaScript, or internationalization.

If this sounds like you, please send your resume and cover letter to yui-jobs (at) yahoo-inc (dot) com.

About Yahoo!

Think about impacting 1 out of every 2 people online — in innovative and imaginative ways that are uniquely Yahoo!. We do just that each and every day, and you could too. After all, it’s big thinkers like you who will create the next generation of Internet experiences for consumers and advertisers across the globe. Now’s the time to show the world what you’ve got. Put your ideas to work for over half a billion people.

Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings please visit http://careers.yahoo.com.

By Jenny DonnellyApril 29th, 2011

Job Opening on the Yahoo! Media Foundation Team

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join the Yahoo! Media Foundation Front End team. The Front End team is responsible for developing global, shared software components and platforms for Yahoo! Media web sites – Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Music, Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! TV, Yahoo! Video, OMG! and others. Yahoo! Media sites are among the top destinations on the Web, and you’ll play a key role in developing unique and exciting products and services that touch millions of people every day.

Requirements

  • Able to work in a dynamic environment
  • Fast learner – can quickly come up to speed with different technologies
  • Team player – can collaborate with and guide peers
  • Must have a strong sense of commitment and responsibility
  • Must have strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Must have strong knowledge and keen interest in emerging tools and technologies in the industry

Required Skills/Experience

  • 5+ years of industry experience
  • Must have strong knowledge of object-oriented programming in PHP (preferred), Java, or C++ or similar
  • Must have experience with MVC frameworks like Zend, CakePHP, or Symphony (or other) and client-side AJAX
  • Must have strong knowledge of JavaScript, OOP JS, CSS and DHTML
  • Proficiency in JSON, XML, XSLT, Unix administration, and shell scripting
  • Regular expressions, Unix development experience, and Subversion management experience highly desired
  • Knowledge and experience with HTML5, CSS3, and emerging presentation technologies highly desired
  • Experience with unit testing and/or test automation a plus
  • Database, SQL and MySQL (LAMP stack) experience are pluses
  • Experience developing and deploying highly efficient, scalable server-side applications
  • Excellent debugging and testing skills
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
  • Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience required

About Yahoo!

Think about impacting 1 out of every 2 people online–in innovative and imaginative ways that are uniquely Yahoo!. We do just that each and every day, and you could too. After all, it’s big thinkers like you who will create the next generation of Internet experiences for consumers and advertisers across the globe. Now’s the time to show the world what you’ve got. Put your ideas to work for over half a billion people.

Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information and to apply please visit http://careers.yahoo.com/jdescription.php?frm=search_results&oid=35901&qs=jcat=8__submit=1, and to search all of our openings please visit http://careers.yahoo.com.

By Ricardo DottaMarch 17th, 2011

Frontend Engineering Positions Available with the Yahoo! Flex Force Team

The Yahoo! Flex Force is currently looking to expand our team with a few talented frontend Engineers. As part of the Flex Force team, you will have the opportunity to work on multiple strategic projects of high profile and high visibility. These positions involve being an ambassador of best practices and sharing knowledge across the organization. We work closely with the different platform teams, including the YUI team, to ensure we’re using the latest strategies, techniques, and tools.

As a recent example, the Flex Force team was behind the implementation of the new Yahoo! Updates widget which is built entirely using YUI 3.

To be successful at this role, you’ll need to be a self-starter and fast learner with a positive mindset who can quickly ramp up and take on different challenges. A true passion for frontend technologies and best practices is also required.

If working with me and my colleagues on the Yahoo! Flex Force sounds interesting to you, head to the Yahoo careers site and check out the following positions:

By Gonzalo CorderoJuly 21st, 2010

Work with YUI as part of the Yahoo! Open Strategy (YOS) Engineering Team

The Yahoo! Open Strategy (YOS) Team is building the next generation of open platforms. One of our upcoming products – Connect – is targeted at third-party publishers and developers. Connect allows third-parties to easily integrate with Yahoo! by dropping a few lines of Javascript code on their site. Further, Connect enables users to login to third-party websites using their Yahoo! IDs and broadcast their updates to friends and followers.

Connect uses several Yahoo technologies including YQL and YUI. In particular, Connect leverages the core libraries from YUI3 (node, io, custom events) and the widget infrastructure to provide a consistent api and cross-browser experience. Once fully developed, Connect will be deployed across thousands of web-sites and be visible to millions of consumers. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved with a project that will have outstanding consumer reach and challenging scalability requirements.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of large-scale web development experience, including familiarity with browser-side client technologies such as Javascript, HTML and CSS and with cross-browser compatibility issues, optimization techniques, and internationalization. Knowledge of PHP and a JavaScript library — such as YUI — are required.

Interested? See the full job description at http://careers.yahoo.com/jdescription.php?oid=29752 and contact Rohit Dube (rdube AT yahoo-inc.com).

By Rohit DubeMay 20th, 2010

Work with YUI 3 on the Yahoo! Search Engineering Team

About the Author: Julien Lecomte is a Yahoo! Search frontend engineer and the author of YUI Compressor and YUI Browser History Manager. Julien writes and speaks about issues of web application performance.

Next generation search engines are not just about serving plain search results anymore. At Yahoo!, we are striving to provide the most compelling search experience for a given query by taking into account many dynamic parameters including user intent, geolocation and user-agent capabilities. We are also a technology provider, developing the engine behind many Yahoo! services.

In order to achieve these lofty goals, the Yahoo! Search team is now hiring superstar client- and server-side engineers. If you have a passion for solving difficult problems and enjoy writing beautiful code that’s well documented and maintainable, you’re well on your way to joining our team. On the client, we make extensive use of the YUI library (both YUI 2 and YUI 3) and often contribute features to it.

Yahoo! Search handles millions of queries every single day, and caters to over 500 million individual users worldwide in more than 40 international markets. These mind boggling numbers make Yahoo! Search engineering one of the best opportunities to make a difference in the lives of people located in all corners of the world. If this sounds like fun to you, check out this sample job post at http://careers.yahoo.com/jdescription.php?oid=29055. You can also email your resume directly to me: julien [dot] lecomte [at] yahoo [dot] com (principals only; no recruiters, please!).

By Julien LecomteApril 5th, 2010

Frontend Engineering Job on the YUI Team

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, 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 with every facet of the YUI project. (Note: This role is in addition to the build/CI position we announced a few weeks ago). This may be a great job for you if you are:

  • familiar with best practices in frontend engineering (e.g., this video should resonate for you);
  • an unabashed JavaScript geek (e.g., this video and this video should be the kind of thing you get excited to download and watch on the big screen in HD);
  • someone who thinks making web applications screamingly fast is a moral obligation;
  • someone who thinks APIs should be easy to use while solving hard problems, and someone who knows how to create that kind of API;
  • someone who thinks about how users will interact with your work if they aren’t adept with a mouse or can’t visually read the computer screen;
  • a passionate communicator as well as a passionate developer.
  • Read the full job description for more details.

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.)

Note: A work visa for the United States is required for this position; Yahoo! cannot sponsor a new H-1B during this hiring cycle.

By Eric MiragliaFebruary 25th, 2010

YUI Team Internship, Summer 2010

Note: This position has been filled. Thanks to all who applied. -Eric

The YUI team has an opened a position for a summer intern (full details on the Yahoo! internship program are available here). If you’re a college student working toward a CS degree and the idea of spending the summer working on JavaScript/CSS projects 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 fun, this may be the opportunity for you.

The YUI team is responsible for development and maintenance of the YUI Library, a collection of JavaScript and CSS components that help frontend engineers create Yahoo-scale web applications quickly. We also build out other parts of the professional frontend engineer’s toolchain — tools like YUI Compressor, YUI Doc, YUI Test, and YUI PHP Loader.

We’re looking for an intern who has completed at least one year of formal coursework toward a CS degree and who has a track record of creating innovative browser-based applications. Both undergrads and graduate students are welcome to apply. This may be a good fit for you if:

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Email a cover letter, resume, and link to your portfolio to yui-jobs@yahoo-inc.com. Be sure to mention your dates of summer availability.

By Eric MiragliaFebruary 19th, 2010