It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world. Want in?

A Little About Us

Search is the starting point to online experiences – whether you’re looking for the perfect gift, a new restaurant or the answer to any question you may have.

Yahoo! Search is one of the most highly-scaled web platforms on the planet, serving over 100 million global users every month across Yahoo branded sites and partner networks. Search engineers develop features for this infrastructure that present many technical challenges in the areas of distributed computing, multi-terabyte storage systems, and high-performance computing. It demands knowledge of software design principles, systems programming, algorithms, data structures, Java and/or C++.

Yahoo! Search team is innovating in areas such as Vertical Search and Content Recommendations for consumers, distribution of Search and Media services for partners, and Small Business Services for merchants.

A Lot About You

You have a passion for solving difficult technical problems, from the network to the user experience. You want to make web applications and systems faster, more reliable, more efficient, and more scalable. You are interested in how search engines work and information retrieval techniques.

Your Day

• You will be working on building services that provide more contextual and personalized experiences, developing various large-scale distributed systems including core functionality, application logic, operational reliability, and scalability/performance.
• You will collaborate directly with key engineering, science, and product stakeholders, in an agile environment where we ship features frequently to make a real impact to the users. You will analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions and ad matching techniques; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed service.
• You could work on various domains from understanding user's queries, content retrieval, to search ranking model and performance optimization. You will use big data and AI technologies to build scalable solutions and provide optimized experiences for different use cases.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent and should have already graduated from the highest degree program.
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience in C++, Java, Python, or other OOP on Linux platforms.
• Good understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques, and object-oriented programming.
• Excellent communication skills and good team player.
• By applying to this position, you are required to locate in Taiwan. This role is eligible for visa sponsorship.

Preferred Qualification

• Advanced degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Knowledge in Machine learning, Information Retrieval or NLP is an advantage.
• Familiar to data processing with distributed computing (Hadoop, Hive, Spark, etc.).
• Experience in using or developing open source software is a plus.
• Industry experience with Agile product development methodology.
• Design and Implement the large-scale runtime system experience.