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Intern II, Technical
Yahoo!
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
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Description
A Little About Us
Our team is founded on four cultural tenets: passion, collaboration, transparency, and “GSD”. We work in a deeply collaborative and highly efficient manner to allow engineers of any level to make deep, meaningful impact to the product, as well as the business. Our contributions directly impact Yahoo’s bottom line -- we enable the monetization of publisher content across the web and mobile, and facilitate brand awareness and exposure. Our technology scales to over 6 billion requests on a daily basis, runs real-time auctions in milliseconds, and serves millions of ads a day.
A Lot About You
You are a software engineer in training looking to learn how to build and maintain business critical web applications. As a skilled and passionate intern, you will be working with a strong, cross-functional, and sometimes cross-geography team of engineers, and will learn how to design and develop applications that enable millions of dollars of ad revenue. You will be committed to building fully tested, high quality, and secure applications.
You are a good communicator, demonstrated in at least one of the following ways:
• Technical presentations
• Building API backed web applications for projects or internships
• Working on team-oriented projects
You are capable of embodying the team’s cultural values:
• Passion for their chosen work (in this case, engineering and learning)
• Collaboration as a pattern for problem solving and building consensus
• Transparency in the face of ambiguous or difficult situations
• “Getting stuff done” through simple, pragmatic iteration and an unwavering focus on product needs
Your Day
• Develop frontend applications and supporting APIs that are validated by strong unit tests, continuous integration testing, and regression tests.
• Iterate quickly and surgically to build features and systems designed to compete with a growing market of competitive video ad technology companies.
• Collaborate with current and new team members to build effective, robust solutions
• Learn from team members to make contributions to and provide production support for our web applications and supporting APIs
Requirements
• You have a passion for your work, the technologies you build, and the people with whom you work.
• You are aware/familiar with some Javascript libraries, front-end frameworks, HTML, and CSS
• You are aware/familiar with API frameworks (Spring, Rails, Play, Django, Node)