Senior Software Engineer New York, NY

Company: Yext
Location: New York
Posted on: May 24, 2025

Job Description:

Yext (NYSE: YEXT) is the leading digital presence platform for multi-location brands, with thousands of customers worldwide. With one central platform, brands can seamlessly deliver consistent, accurate, and engaging experiences and meaningfully connect with customers anywhere in the digital world. Our AI and machine learning technology powers the knowledge behind every customer engagement, which is only possible through our team of innovators and enthusiastic collaborators. Join us and experience firsthand why we are consistently recognized as a 'Best Place to Work' globally by industry leaders such as Built In, Fortune, and Great Place To Work!The Yext Engineering Team drives the technology behind our revolutionary product offering! We're looking for Senior Software Engineers to help us continue building out our product and services. Our team works in an agile environment running two-week sprints that culminate with demos of features in progress. You will work alongside engineers from the top universities and tech companies in the world, hands-on with the code from day one.What You'll Do

• Participate in full life-cycle software development
• Design, implement, and deploy highly scalable and reliable systems
• Build storage systems, libraries, and frameworks.
• Contribute ideas for new features and identify areas for improvement proactively
• Collaborate effectively across teams, including outside of engineering
• Write clean, tested, and well-documented codeWhat You Have
  • BA/BS in Computer Science, a related field, or a similar college level education
  • 7+ year of industry experience
  • Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms and software design
  • Fluency with Java, C++, Python, or similar (we primarily code in Java)
  • Openness to new technologies and creative solutions
  • Comfortable working within a fast-paced high growth startup environment#LI-JB2Pay ranges at Yext are established based on an analysis of salaries for positions with a similar level of accountability and impact in the relevant labor market. Salary levels are expected to change to reflect an employee's job performance (results and impact) over time. Salaries at the time of hire are typically offered in the lower to middle of the above-referenced range in order to provide the opportunity to reflect performance-based increases over time. In addition to base salaries, employees at Yext are typically eligible for a comprehensive package of benefits including medical, dental and vision benefits; life insurance; short term and long-term disability; 401(k) retirement plan; and vacation and sick leave. Successful candidates may also be eligible for equity (stock) based compensation and/or variable pay programs based on performance relative to goals and targets.
    
    
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