Yahoo’s Display Advertising Group

  • #167636
    kay 209.***.62.145 2543

    We are looking for both Backend and Frontend.

    Let me know if you have any question regard the position.

    kayoh [at] ymail [dot] com


    Yahoo! delivers tens of billions of ads each day, collecting multi-terabytes of actionable insights for advertisers. The Advertising Products Group (APG) at Yahoo! is developing the next generation advertising system that can handle billions of advertising impressions daily in a wide-array of advertising formats. The new systems that we are developing will improve how we match ads to our users and will improve the performance, scalability and flexibility of our ad platforms.

    As a member of the Advertising Applications team, you will participate in the development of one of the world’s largest and most complex online advertising systems. We’re always looking for big thinkers. We need people who have the ability to take develop new ideas and successfully launch them into production. Ideal candidates should have strong enterprise java experience with good knowledge of Oracle.

    Responsibilities include: 

    * Build highly scalable, high performance and stable advertising experience.

    * Understand the business requirements, translate them into design and implementation approaches, and rapidly drive convergence towards the best solution.

    * Engineer the full product lifecycle, from concepts, design, through maintenance, managing prioritization and trade-offs across functional domains

    * Hands-on coding: Develop and maintain high quality code base, consistently delivering challenging, stable, and maintainable projects on schedule.

    * Adopt and improve best practices to foster rapid ways of software development.

    Minimum Job Qualifications 

    A solid computer science foundation including data structures, programming languages, operating systems, software engineering, and databases.

    Strong experience with Object Oriented JavaScript, CSS, and DHTML

    Strong experience with JSP, Servlets, Struts, MVC, and Spring

    Experience working with YUI widgets, AJAX, and developing interactive web applications

    Strong, hands-on Java, J2EE development skills – ideally with JBOSS else Web Logic/Websphere

    Knowledge of cross browser issues and internet security

    Strong background in object oriented design and design patterns

    Excellent debugging and testing skills

    Attention to detail, strong hands on, flexible with assignments, and can-do attitude

    Must have strong verbal and written communication skills and analytical and problem solving skills.

    Excellent team player with strong collaboration skills to work with various cross functional teams on multi-team projects.

    Should have a strong sense of commitment and responsibility.

    Independent thinker.

    3-6+ years of web software engineering experience.

    MS Computer Science (or equivalent), 5+ years industry experience

    Background in high performance computing and code optimization.

    Preferred Job Qualifications:

    Experience in Advertisement management systems is definitely a plus

    Experience with building large scale, distributed, highly scalable and highly available internet enabled enterprise server systems

    Knowledge of production support activities

    Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings,career.yahoo.com