Senior Full Stack Engineer - Traffic Foundation Remote - Canada
Senior Full Stack Engineer - Traffic Foundation Remote - Canada
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Summary
Are you passionate about building impactful software that reaches millions Join Yelps Traffic team and put your full stack engineering skills to work powering one of the internets most visited destinations for discovering and engaging with local businesses.
The Traffic team builds Search Engine Optimization (SEO) solutions that drive inbound traffic by optimizing how Yelp pages appear and rank in search results. The team also explores innovative ways to integrate with search providers large language models (LLMs)and leverages our own LLMsto deliver greater value to our users at scale.
Were looking for an experienced Full Stack Software Engineer to work on both frontend and backend projects to enhance how search engines understand and rank Yelp content analyze traffic data to uncover new opportunities and collaborate with crossfunctional teams to deliver features that drive real results. The work on this team is constantly evolving highly impactful and directly tied to Yelps revenue.
Yelp experiences 4 billion sessions and 100 million monthly active users in the US alone and has continued to grow organically across all the markets where we operate. The Traffic team is responsible for half of that engagement. We see significant opportunities ahead to scale our impact and help even more people connect with great local businesses. Our goal is to make Yelp the top marketplace for consumers.
If the idea of solving complex technical challenges and working with our data to drive hundreds of millions of users to connect with millions of businesses excites you wed love to have you join us!
This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular area in Canada. We welcome applicants from throughout Canada. Wed love to have you apply even if you dont feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp were looking for great people not just those who simply check off all the boxes.
What youll do:
- Design and build new features to optimize how users search and connect with businesses at a large scale.
- Collaborate closely with the Yelp AI teams and our Product Managers to shape our product and technical roadmaps.
- Deploy projects in a ServiceOriented Architecture from backend services to fullyfeatured UIs.
- Run SEO A/B experiments and dive into the resulting data to look for trends and insights related to traffic metrics
- Write clear and concise technical documentation.
- Mentor other engineers and share the skills youve learned.
What it takes to succeed:
- Strong knowledge of SEO and the different ways websites use Search Engines to increase organic sessions to their features.
- Ideally 4 years of working experience in fullstack web development.
- Understanding of at least one popular serverside web framework (e.g. Django Flask Rails Pyramid Laravel Express) and a modern JS frontend framework (e.g. React Svelte Vue Ember).
- Understanding of Python development (with Apache Spark and Cassandra as backend) interfacing with Machine Learning APIs.
- Strong debugging and investigative skills especially with a focus on datadriven decisionmaking.
- Experience leading or contributing to technical roadmaps.
- Proven ability to work independently with minimal guidance to lead large and complex projects involving multiple contributors in a highly collaborative asynchronous and distributed environment.
What youll get:
- Compensation range is $annually. Depending on your role and level you may also be offered a bonus restricted stock units and benefits.
- This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across Canada.
- You can find more information about Yelps five star benefits here!
Closing
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.
Were 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 disability or any other protected status.
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 or.
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.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
