Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog)

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

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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Job Opening on the Yahoo! Sports team

Yahoo! Sports has reached 36 million unique visitors per month and dominates the Online Sports and Fantasy Sports industry worldwide. The site’s recipe for success: high quality content presented via rich and standard-compliant interfaces.

The Y! Sports experience is so engaging, users view over 2 billion pages per month — more than Fox, SI, and CBS Sports combined! To meet such high demands, Y! Sports stays at the forefront of Internet technologies by leveraging platforms such as YUI.

If you consider yourself an avid YUI user, the kind that can look under a component’s hood and start adding quality features, you’re well on your way to joining their team.

Email your resume, including portfolio URLs, to mediatech-hiring /at/ yahoo /dash/ inc /dot/ com (Principals only; no recruiters, please.) or find out more about the position.

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Frontend Engineering Position on Platform Framework Team

If you’re a YUI user and interested in working on tools relied upon by properties like the Yahoo! home page and My Yahoo!, there’s a new position available that might be of interest. Our colleague Stephen Woods (@ysaw), who has helped to engineer a YUI 3-based module system for the new Yahoo! home page, is looking for someone to work with him on that project. From the job description:

Our team is building new frameworks, creating libraries and tools that will allow other developers and editors to build web sites quickly and efficiently. You will be working with product managers and developers to understand the requirements and needs. You will be creating specifications, designing, implementing tools and APIs. You will be using YUI libraries for creating the extensible UI. Minimum job qualifications:

• JavaScript expert
• Proficient in writing standards compliant HTML, CSS, Ajax, DOM
• 3-4 years of cross browser application development experience
• Experience with PHP
• Well versed with XML
• Experience using YUI
• Self starter with the ability to work under pressure and handle multiple simultaneous tasks
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Head over to careers.yahoo.com to read more about the position and to apply. That site is also a good place to look for all YUI-related positions open at Yahoo! today.

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Frontend Engineering Position Open on Yahoo! UI Framework Team (Southern California)

The UI Framework Team at Yahoo! provides crucial foundation pieces for some of Yahoo!’s most important projects. Based in Burbank (Southern California), the team is looking to hire a skilled frontend engineer to help them maintain and extend the platform. Significant YUI implementation work is part of the job description. Head over to the Yahoo! Careers site for more on this position and many others that make use of YUI.

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Frontend Engineering Position on the Yahoo! Openness Strategy Team

We noted a few frontend engineering positions available at Yahoo! last week, and we have another one to share with you today. This position is a senior F2E role focusing on Yahoo!’s platforms for developers — our “Openness Strategy,” or YOS.

About YOS

The Yahoo! Openness Strategy Team is building the next generation of open platforms and integrating them into every part of Yahoo!. From platforms that add a social element to every aspect of Yahoo!, to an applications platform and developer-focused offerings, the YOS team is tasked with transforming the way Yahoo! works. In building out all the components of YOS, the team is focused on implementing distributed systems that are highly scalable and performant so they can reliably serve hundreds of millions of Yahoo! users and developers every day.

Job Responsibilities

You will be part of the engineering team that focuses on Yahoo! application platform (YAP), which enables developers to build web applications that are available throughout Yahoo! — the largest audience in the world. You will contribute to the architecture, design and implementation of innovative features and services for this platform. You will work closely with the rest of the engineering team, product managers, QA engineers and external partners who build applications on this platform.

Minimum Qualifications

1. 7+ years of industry experience working directly with the full web technology stack: browsers, web servers and databases
2. Strong command of browser-side client technologies including Ajax, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM JSON, cross-browser compatibility issues, optimization techniques and internationalization issues
3. Experience with application development using Java or PHP
4. Strong command of client/server programming with AJAX
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
6. Extensive experience with object-oriented design and development techniques
7. Familiarity with software development life cycle and best practices
8. BS in Computer Science or equivalent. MS in Computer Science preferred

Preferred Qualifications

1. Knowledge of using Javascript toolkits such as YUI or jQuery
2. Experience with JSP compiler implementation
3. Experience with Open Social or Shindig implementation

You can view the job posting and apply at the following URL: http://careers.yahoo.com/jdescription.php?oid=22173. Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings please visit http://careers.yahoo.com.

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Two Frontend Engineering Positions at Yahoo!

When we post job announcements at Yahoo!, we often preface them with the following pitch:

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.

This pitch is never more true than with positions in frontend engineering/web development at Yahoo!, where products and platforms have a unique reach and impact. And we’re always looking for engineers whose talent and passion is as unique as the opportunity. Here are a couple of positions we’re looking to fill right now — positions building on Yahoo!’s great tradition in the discipline of frontend engineering, using and improving tools like YUI, and helping to make the internet more delightful and powerful for Yahoo!’s half a billion users.

Javascript Platform Developer

Location: Sunnyvale, CA.

The Presentation Framework Group is building new frameworks, creating libraries and tools that will allow other developers and editors to build web sites quickly and efficiently. You will be working with product managers and developers to understand the requirements and needs. You will be creating specifications, designing, implementing tools and APIs. You will be using YUI libraries for creating the extensible UI.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• JavaScript expert.
• Proficient in writing standards compliant HTML, CSS, Ajax, DOM
• 3-4 years of cross browser application development experience
• Experience with PHP
• Well versed with XML
• Experience using YUI
• Self starter with the ability to work under pressure and handle multiple simultaneous tasks.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

To apply for this position, please click on the following link: http://careers.yahoo.com/jdescription.php?oid=21972.

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

Front-End Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, CA.

Want to work on an application with a user base measured in the millions and not thousands? Are you interested in Maps or Geo Technology? Passionate about Front-End Engineering? If so, then we want to talk with you. We’re looking for a motivated and experienced engineer to join the Yahoo! Maps team. In this role, you would be working on the Maps destination (http://maps.yahoo.com) and helping to support internal maps-related efforts on other Yahoo! properties. The ideal candidate has strong skills in frontend technologies, but is quite comfortable with Shell Scripting
(Perl/Bash) and Apache Configuration. You’re a team player that is focused on great user experiences with a laser sharp eye for detail. Sound like you? Let us hear it!

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• Strong skills in PHP, Javascript/AJAX, CSS and HTML
• Ability to write clean, concise cross-browser code
• Previous experience as a Front-End Engineer
• Comfortable developing in a UNIX environment
• Solid oral and written communication skills
• Experience working with XML and/or JSON

Desired:

• 2-4 years experience in web application development
• Experience configuring Apache
• Experience with version control software (CVS or SVN)
• Experience with Yahoo! APIs (specifically YUI and Maps AJAX API)
• Knowledge on any of the following is a plus: REST/Web Services, i18n, l10n

To apply for this position, please click on the following link: http://careers.yahoo.com/jdescription.php?oid=21920.

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

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