Hybrid role 2 days in office - Dublin
A little About Us:
Yahoo Finance is the largest business and financial information and tools app/site in the world, with un-rivaled access to data, insights, tools, and original editorial content. Under a new leadership team, we have recommitted to building and revitalising this essential, trusted resource for investors and savers.
Join Yahoo Finance Engineering – help us design and build various systems that power our products.
This role is for the Yahoo Finance Data Platform team. The team is responsible for building and enhancing systems that ingest and process real-time and batch data from various feed providers for the data presented on Yahoo Finance.
On a day-to-day basis, the engineer will work on various tasks involving feed acquisition, processing, and building/enhancing systems to power products and/or features. This will involve writing code, debugging, enhancing existing code, and designing data models to store data efficiently to power various product use cases.
Responsibilities:
Write code to perform data acquisition and processing for new data feeds
Take ownership of existing data feeds and data processing systems
Execute the modernization initiatives underway in the team
Build new components, and platforms as needed for powering product initiatives
A lot About You:
Demonstrated industry experience building backend systems
Experience working on real-time and/or batch-feed processing systems
Experience with databases
Proven industry experience
Masters/Bachelors in Computer Science (or a related technical field)
Strong system design skills especially involving modern distributed systems
Strong data modeling skills
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Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements.
If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.
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