Junior App Backend Engineer (Ad Syndication Experience) (Remote - Ireland)

Summary

Are you interested in building productivity tools to enable the backend Python community at Yelp to develop quickly and reliably? The Ad Syndication Experience team builds solutions that show ads outside of the Yelp platform to acquire more traffic to our advertisers and increase engagement with their products and services.

We’re looking for an engineer to join a dynamic team working on cutting-edge projects, solutions, infrastructure and systems that improves the experience of ads. As part of the team you will be working on projects to generate the creative content, ensure that the content is relevant and engaging for users and compliant with legal and partner policies.

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.

This opportunity requires you to be located in the Republic of Ireland. 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 and maintain tools for developing and testing Python services and packages.
• Collaborate with team members and engineers across the company to design elegant systems.
• Work closely with product managers to understand the requirements of proposed solutions.
• Contribute to the technical direction of the team through technical road maps.

What it takes to succeed:

• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and roll out future-proof productivity tools across medium to large organizations.
• Great understanding of Linux, databases, and Service Oriented Architecture.
• Relevant experience in at least one server-side programming language, preferably Python.
• You’re excited about the challenges of scalability, reliability, and performance.

What you'll get:

• Full responsibility for projects from day one, a collaborative team, and a dynamic work environment.

• Competitive salary, a pension scheme, and an optional employee stock purchase plan.

• 25 days paid holiday (rising to 29 with service), plus one floating holiday.

• €150 monthly reimbursement to help cover remote working expenses.

• €95 caregiver reimbursement to support dependent care for families.

• Private health insurance, including dental and vision.

• Flexible working hours and meeting-free Wednesdays.

• Regular 3-day Hackathons, bi-weekly learning groups, and productivity spending to support and encourage your career growth.

• Opportunities to participate in digital events and conferences.

• €95 per month to use toward qualifying wellness expenses.

• Quarterly team offsites.

Closing

Yelp values diversity. 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.

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