Senior Software Engineer - Full-Stack, Infrastructure (Remote - Canada)

Summary Yelp engineering culture is driven by our values: we’re a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems. All new engineers deploy working code their first week, and we strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers, mentors, and teams. At the end of the day, we’re all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment. Our Client Data Team plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of GraphQL APIs for both web and backend systems at Yelp. Our GraphQL infrastructure powers data delivery to millions of users worldwide, across all platforms. Additionally, we support hundreds of engineers across the company, using (and contributing to) open source tooling such as GraphQL, React, Apollo, yarn and webpack. Your work will be integral to the APIs that drive nearly every feature on Yelp. In this role, you will design, build, help evolve and maintain the data fetching ecosystem for all platforms. You will work on a cross-platform team that strives to deliver seamless developer experiences with a focus on performance, observability, reliability, scalability and security. Our customers are software engineers on all platforms at Yelp (backend, iOS, Android and Web), and our goal is to help them fetch data with faster iteration speeds and ship high quality features. You will collaborate closely with other engineers across Yelp to gather feedback to help create tooling and set best practices that scale. The decisions you make will have a significant impact on every product at Yelp. What we do is key to how Yelp is built, and we’d love for you to be part of it. 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. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes. What you'll do: • Build scalable APIs,tooling and infrastructure for data fetching and to support our web and backend engineers • Scope, design and lead complex web or backend projects from conception to completion • Evaluate the latest technologies used in industry and help update the team roadmap • Contribute PRs back to open source where needed • Write clear and concise technical documentation • Mentor other engineers and share the skills you’ve learned What it takes to succeed: • Several years of web infrastructure or web platform experience. • Strong knowledge of JavaScript. • Experience working with data fetching in web apps (e.g. GraphQL, REST, Prisma, fetch, axios) on frontend and backend • Experience with modern web tooling such as Webpack, Babel, Jest, Yarn • Experience designing, building and maintaining systems at scale • Ability to own a team project from scoping to implementation • Passion for working on software infrastructure/platform teams/developer experience What you'll get: • Compensation range is $97,000-230,000 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 Yelp's 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.” We’re 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 accommodations-recruiting@yelp.com or 1-415-969-8488. 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. #LI-Remote Recruiting and Applicant Privacy Notice