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• Engineering Leadership: Serve as the Engineering Manager, ensuring the reliability and functionality of the site and taking ownership of technical operations.
• Talent Acquisition and Development: Recruit, mentor, and retain top technical talent to build a cohesive, high-performance team.
• Drive High-Performance Engineering Culture: Establish a culture of elite development practices, promoting code quality, best practices, and operational excellence.
• Define and Sustain Product & Technical Vision: Set the product and technical direction for the team, aligning engineering efforts with business objectives.
• Hands-On Technical Contribution: Lead by example through hands-on involvement in architecture design, building proofs of concept, and, when needed, writing production-quality code.
• Architectural Integrity & Code Quality: Ensure systems are designed for scalability, reliability, and performance, maintaining architectural integrity throughout the development lifecycle.

• Engineering Management: Extensive experience leading engineering teams and driving projects from concept through execution.
• Talent Acquisition: Proven ability to recruit, build, and scale high-performing technical teams.
• Backend Systems at Scale: Strong industry experience in designing and building backend systems that handle high volumes of traffic and data.
• Real-Time & Batch Processing: Hands-on experience with both real-time and batch data processing systems.
• Applied Machine Learning: Experience with machine learning, including prompt engineering and model fine-tuning, especially for language models.
• Technical Expertise:
  • 12+ Years of Industry Experience: Demonstrated track record in engineering roles.
  • Programming Proficiency: Expertise in Java, Python, or equivalent languages, with a strong technical foundation.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Note: This role requires the candidate to work from the office at the Bangalore EGL location for 3 days a week. The remaining days can be worked remotely.

Important notes for your attention

Applications: 

All applicants must apply for Yahoo openings direct with Yahoo.  We do not authorize any external agencies in India to handle candidates’ applications.   No agency nor individual may charge candidates for any efforts they make on an applicant’s behalf in the hiring process.  

Our internal recruiters will reach out to you directly to discuss the next steps if we determine that the role is a good fit for you.  Selected candidates will go through formal interviews and assessments arranged by Yahoo direct.  

Offer Distributions: 

Our electronic offer letter and documents will be issued through our system for e-signatures, not via individual emails.

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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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