App Backend Engineer, Core Services (Remote - Canada)

Want to join a team where your work makes a significant impact? Yelp is the richest source of local business data and user-generated content in the world.

Our team is part of the Engineering Effectiveness organization, which focuses on improving Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, Time to Restore and Reduced Failures. Our work compromises maintaining shared libraries and tooling as well as improving the experience of developing with Python for hundreds Yelp engineers.

As a backend engineer you’ll work closely with other engineers to develop and maintain our Python platform, support and improve developer experience for Python developers and facilitate running and testing of Python services libraries and system packages.

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 your impact will only grow from there with the support of your manager, mentor and team. At the end of the day, we are all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment.

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.

Where you come in: • Maintain our build and test tools for Python (e.g. pytest, poetry, virtualenv). • Maintain our internal general purpose Python service infrastructure libraries used by other developers at Yelp to build new features. • Maintain tools to enrich and streamline the Python developer experience. • Able to iterate quickly using Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment principles. • Give back by mentoring other engineers and sharing the skills you learn. • Collaborate with team members and engineers across the company to improve developer experience.

What it takes to succeed: • Ideally 3+ years of relevant industry experience. • Experience with build and deployment ecosystems for Python • Relevant experience in at least one server-side programming language. • You’re excited about the challenges of scalability, reliability, and performance.