Entry Level Data Backend Engineer (Remote - Canada)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Summary

Yelp engineering culture is driven by our : 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.

At Yelp, we connect people with great local businesses. But have you ever wondered who ensures that search queries sift through over 100 million reviews across millions of businesses in under 400 milliseconds?

Who selects the perfect ad from millions of possibilities faster than a blink of an eye? And once a user finds the ideal business for their needs, who ensures that our logs are seamlessly transported, transformed, and indexed to enhance their next experience?

We do! We're the data backend engineers who make these systems work with speed, efficiency, and at scale.

The Ranking Platform team at Yelp designs, builds, and maintains core search services that power business critical use-cases such as search ranking, ad delivery, and recommendations.

We are responsible for building and scaling our backend search engine, managing our real-time indexing system that processes vast amounts of Yelp data for search, running machine learning models for ranking, and the Search API.

This API is crucial for building, executing, and enhancing search results to present the most relevant businesses, photos, and review content.

We’re looking for engineers to join our team to build elegant, scalable systems.

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 :

• Design, build, and deploy systems and services that deliver the most relevant search results to Yelp’s users
• Work with technologies like Apache Lucene, Apache Flink, Apache Beam and Kubernetes to build core pieces of Yelp’s search infrastructure
• Write code and documentation, participate in code reviews
• Collaborate with other engineering teams and product managers to contribute to the technical roadmap
• Stay up-to-date with industry best practices, emerging technologies, and trends related to search ranking
• Support on-call rotations as needed to operate the team.

What it takes to succeed :

• A Bachelor’s Degree or an equivalent work experience is required.
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis
• Fluency in Java, Scala, Python or a similar language - familiarity with more than one is a plus
• Comprehensive understanding of systems and application design with an understanding of operational and reliability trade-offs

What you'll get :

• Compensation range is $103,000-133,000 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 !

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 or 1-.

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.

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