14 hours ago
Base Salary
$149k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical leader while directly designing, implementing, and operating production software.
- Own complex development efforts from problem definition and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operation.
- Design technical solutions, review designs, and guide architectural and implementation decisions.
- Translate product priorities into technical plans, identify dependencies and risks, and guide initiatives through delivery.
- Solve difficult technical problems, mentor engineers, and support the growth of less-experienced teammates.
- Maintain engineering quality through design discussions, code reviews, testing, operational readiness, and continuous improvement.
- Lead production incident response, diagnose complex problems, restore service, and drive recurrence prevention.
- Collaborate across engineering teams and product areas on work spanning multiple systems.
- Participate in recruiting and interviewing software engineers.
- Use and evaluate AI-assisted development tools across design, implementation, testing, debugging, and code review while maintaining standards for correctness, security, scalability, and privacy.
Requirements
- BA/BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent college-level education.
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Track record of leading significant technical projects and delivering complex production systems.
- Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and supporting less-experienced team members.
- Experience supervising or managing software engineers, or demonstrated readiness to take on direct-report responsibilities.
- Deep technical judgment and foundations in software architecture, design, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience designing software systems, evaluating approaches, and communicating technical decisions.
- Experience diagnosing difficult production problems and leading technical incident response.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering teams and with Product or business partners.
- Fluency with Java, Go, C++, Python, or a similar programming language; Yext primarily codes in Java and Go.
- Experience recruiting, interviewing, or evaluating software engineers.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools and critically evaluating their output.
- Sound judgment regarding data privacy, intellectual property, security, and confidential information when using AI tools.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Vacation and sick leave.
- Potential eligibility for variable pay programs based on performance.
- Based in the Rosslyn, Virginia office with in-person collaboration required at least three days per week; specific in-office days are flexible.
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About Yext
Yext builds an enterprise platform for managing digital presence and search across listings, reviews, local pages, and site experiences, with an API-first architecture for developers. It sells SaaS subscriptions to multi-location brands and partners in retail, healthcare, financial services, hospitality, and food to manage and measure visibility across AI and traditional search. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York, Yext is a public company on the NYSE (YEXT).