Frontend Engineer

Yahoo Sports connects fans to the sports and fantasy games they love most, providing personalized quality content and superior fan experiences every day.
A Little About Us:
Yahoo Sports delivers segment-leading experiences to over half a billion people worldwide. We are number one in our category, with several award-winning products on the market. Delivering entertaining and informative relevant content to so many people quickly and beautifully at scale is a huge challenge. We use everything from big data (Hadoop and other grid/cloud technologies) to cutting-edge HTML5/CSS3/JS experiences at a level of complexity few companies do. If you eat, sleep and breathe current and next-gen web technologies, if you play around with them in your own time and learn new technologies like node.JS or GraphQL because you can't help yourself, then we need you to come help us build the next generation of Yahoo Sports sites.
Responsibilities:

• Build next-generation applications for desktop and mobile browsers with an emphasis on emotional experiences and constant attention to scalability, performance, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility
• Partner with Product and Design to redesign and implement user interfaces
• Develop the next generation of features serving the Professional Sports industry

A Lot About You:
As a Front End Software Engineer at Yahoo Sports, you will work up and down the entire technology stack to build new features and products to drive the continued success of our sports vertical. You will work hand in hand with world-class teams of other software engineers and architects as well as backend engineers, cloud data experts, and computer scientists to build amazing and emotional experiences that will delight our users. The ideal candidate is a technically strong engineer who likes a dynamic environment and a mix of design and development. This candidate must be comfortable navigating the entire serving stack, from browser to API. You should be as comfortable with JavaScript as you are with HTTP proxies and web servers like Apache or Node.

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent (e.g. 4+ years work experience or FE coursework)
• 2+ years experience in web development and Front End engineering
• Proficiency in one or more Front End engineering skills including vanilla Javascript, AJAX, PHP
• Proficient with the current CSS3, and HTML5 standards
• Proficient with JavaScript frameworks and libraries (e.g. React.js)
• Experience with data interface's (API's, SQL, GraphQL)
• Customer-focused, react well to changes, work with teams
• Self-starter, team player

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with vanilla JavaScript
• Experience with GIT, Hudson, jUnit, phpUnit
• Experience with Node.js, React.js
• Understanding of full serving architecture including use of HTTP proxies, knowledge of Traffic Server or Squid a plus
• Experience with Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration
• Understanding of basic unix environment, bash scripting as well
• Sports fan, plays fantasy sports in spare time, familiar with sports betting, and loves statistical information.

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