Software Engineer - Full Stack (Web Infrastructure)
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Our small team of full stack engineers define tooling, set best practices, and define web architecture patterns that scale. Our goal is to enable quick and effortless web development. We support the engineers who are providing the best user experience to millions of users.

Yelp engineering culture is driven by our values: we're a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages "unboring" solutions to problems. New hires are expected to deploy working code their first week, and your impact will only grow from there with the support of your manager, mentor, and team. At the end of the day, we are all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment.

What You Will Do:

* Design and build scalable web tooling/infrastructure/architecture to support our Full Stack engineers who develop features that support millions of users.
* Develop the systems that lead to beautiful layouts that work across desktop and mobile browsers.
* Deploy projects in a Service-Oriented Architecture, all the way from backend services to fully-featured UIs.
* Collaborate closely with product, design, and other engineering teams.
* Mentor other engineers and share the skills you've learned.

We Are Looking For:

* Full-Stack engineering experience in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Java, or C++.
* Experience making architectural/infrastructure decisions for large websites.
* Experience making incremental changes to large code bases.
* Understanding of web security and performance best practices.
* Comfortable working in a Unix Environment.
* If you don't have at least one year of experience in a similar role, please apply to our College Engineering role instead!

Pluses:

* If you have what we are looking for in the above, we encourage you to apply! Everything below is something you may already have experience with, or will have the opportunity to learn on the job.
* Experience with React and typing (Typescript, Flow)
* Experience with popular JavaScript tooling (Webpack, Babel, Jest) and/or popular Python libraries/tools (Pyramid, pytest, tox, SQLAlchemy).
* Deep understanding of at least one popular server side web framework (Django, Flask, Rails, Pyramid, Laravel, Express, etc.) or modern JS frontend framework (React, Angular, Ember, etc.)

At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education - and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values, which include "Playing Well With Others" and "Authenticity."

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition or disability.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations-recruiting@yelp.com or 415-969-8488.

Note: Yelp does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to any recruiting alias or employee. Yelp is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.