Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Yahoo is a leading company known for its consumer inbox service, Yahoo Mail, which serves hundreds of millions of users worldwide. They are seeking a Principal Frontend Web Engineer to lead the development of next-generation communication products on the web, focusing on AI-assisted workflows and high-quality code delivery.
Responsibilities
- Feature Leadership & Delivery: Define, design, develop, and ship major new features in current and future web products, owning them end-to-end from requirements through production monitoring
- AI-First Workflow Orchestration: Leverage approved AI-assisted tools (such as Cursor and Claude Code) to accelerate implementation while maintaining architectural integrity, code quality, and security
- Lifecycle Optimization: Identify and implement AI-driven efficiencies across the development lifecycle, replacing manual boilerplate and repetitive refactors with automated, AI-validated workflows
- Technical Judgment & Oversight: Balance AI-generated outputs with manual oversight, reviewing generated code for architectural correctness, performance, and adherence to strict accessibility and security standards
- High-Scale Impact: Take ownership of web application areas impacting millions, tackling hard engineering and UX problems with elegant, seamless solutions
- Quality & Collaboration: Perform thorough code reviews and collaborate with UX designers and product managers to deliver platform improvements and critical bug fixes
- Operational Excellence: Write testable, reliable code and deploy, monitor, and operate large-scale production web systems distributed across the globe
- Mentorship & Innovation: Mentor engineers across the squad and adjacent teams to scale AI-first best practices, establishing guardrails for AI-augmented coding, and evaluating emerging tooling to keep Yahoo at the leading edge
Skills
- BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 8+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent years of experience)
- Strong understanding of the fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms, and Software Design
- Deep technical knowledge of responsive design and modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular) and Node.js
- Expertise in web application development with a strong command of browser-side technologies including HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript, and OOP JavaScript
- Proven expertise in software development principles, including design patterns, CI/CD, and deployment architecture
- Experience with modern web technologies like Webpack, Redux Toolkit, Atomic CSS, Storybook, and REST APIs
- Expertise in test-driven development and frameworks such as Jest, Selenium, Playwright, and React Testing Library
- Expert knowledge of web application performance, stability, and debugging
- Hands-on experience with approved AI code-assist tools (such as Cursor and Claude Code) integrated into daily development workflows
- Proficient in writing clear prompts, engineering context-rich system prompts, and iterating on AI suggestions to achieve robust implementation results
- Commitment to evaluating and validating AI-generated outputs to detect logical errors, security vulnerabilities, and code regressions
- Experience developing Mail or Calendar applications
- Experience with ML and GenAI, including building user-facing features powered by LLMs
- Experience working in Unix/Linux environments
- Experience with mobile web development
- Experience with Scrum, Squad, or similar agile development methodologies
- Exposure to accessibility (a11y) or internationalization (i18n) for large-scale systems
Benefits
- Incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions
- Healthcare
- A great 401k
- Backup childcare
- Education stipends
Company Overview
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Verizon Media. It was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.yahoo.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Yahoo has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 197 in 2023, 646 in 2022, 381 in 2021, 463 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.