Principal Backend Software Engineer

Yahoo Finance is seeking a Principal Backend Software Engineer to collaborate with key stakeholders in defining a forward-looking strategy for the AI platform. The successful candidate will lead the vision for building scalable AI pipeline components, design event-driven microservices architectures, and work on enabling Yahoo Finance products to deliver a quality experience.

Requirements

• Define and lead the vision for building scalable AI pipeline components, databases, and API endpoints
• Design event-driven microservices architectures for processing large-scale financial datasets
• Write production and prototype code for containerized data processing workflows
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to gather requirements and drive feature development
• Develop integrations with multiple LLM providers and machine learning platforms
• Implement real-time data processing pipelines with message queuing and fanout patterns
• Collaborate effectively as both a visionary leader, a team player, individual contributor, and mentor junior engineers

Benefits

• Healthcare
• 401k
• Backup childcare
• Education stipends
• Discretionary annual bonus or commissions