Senior Manager Software Dev Engineering

$143,625 - $299,375/Yr

Yahoo Holdings - Richardson, TX

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Richardson, TX

About the position

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. The Yahoo Commerce team's mission is to help our audience of 600 million monthly active users discover and make informed decisions about products and services so they can save time and money. We primarily serve audiences who are in their shopping journeys across all Yahoo properties. We work directly with our partners to reach new audiences, gain new users, and drive GMV through leveraging our ecosystem of products and services. We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Engineering Manager who will lead multiple squads responsible for significant functional aspects of the Yahoo Commerce experience. The ideal candidate has a bias for action, excels at explaining technical concepts to anyone and everyone, and is constantly interested in how the applications we build work "under the hood". You are customer-focused, regardless of whether the customer is an external user or an internal team member. You can easily tie engineering objectives to business goals and deliver outcomes that move the business forward. You take pride in your team members' career growth and development and you provide continuous clear feedback. You are able to write code from time to time, although that is not a day-to-day part of this role.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of engineers with mixed skill sets, providing clear leadership and direction
• Work closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to drive outcomes
• Lead a team of engineers designing scalable, maintainable, and secure strategic solutions
• Research ML systems, models, and schemes and collaborate with your team and other teams to implement and integrate into new and existing systems
• Understand business objectives and develop ML models that help to achieve them
• Develop strategies for training and retraining ML systems and models as needed
• Develop team members through coaching, direct and indirect mentorship
• Act as technical liaison to business teams to translate business needs to work streams and technical solutions
• Lead team initiatives from start to finish by managing and improving the entire software development life cycle
• Present and communicate across multiple groups to influence decisions, share knowledge, and solve organizational problems
• Collect, analyze and convert data into engineering and business insights
• Responsible for the success of both engineering and product led initiatives
• Accurately prioritize and assign tasks according to business goals
• Accountable for the performance and results of the team
• Engage, attract, and retain top talent

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams
• 6+ years experience in software development
• High proficiency with distributed systems, API design & development, and ML engineering
• Familiarity with a variety of frameworks like Java, Python etc
• Knowledge of modern CI/CD systems and methodologies
• Exposure to large-scale data processing technologies like Kafka, Spark, Oozie and Hadoop
• Familiarity with popular cloud service providers and their offerings (AWS, GCP)
• Understanding of large-scale web applications (clustering, scalability, caching, performance tuning)
• Experience integrating LLM APIs into new or existing software applications
• Interest in, or experience with, prototyping and creating production-ready applications based on generative AI
• Experience with various OpenAI tools and frameworks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

• Healthcare
• 401K savings plan
• Company holidays
• Vacation
• Sick time
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program