Senior Application Backend - (Semantic Business Information) (Remote - United Kingdom)

Have you ever wanted immediate access to information about a business, such as its health & safety measures, opening hours, services, or some other unique insight? Are you interested in exploring this type of data and finding creative ways to collect, curate, and make it easily accessible for others? Imagine doing this on a large scale, taking millions of data points to help hundreds of millions of consumers connect with millions of businesses. If this sounds exciting, come and join us!

The Semantic Business Information (SBI) team at Yelp is looking for a Backend engineer to help build and support our platform. We implement the platforms that collect, curate, and serve critical and up-to-date information about all businesses on Yelp. We then provide this structured business information to our internal teams so that they, in turn, can create richer user experiences. We are the backbone for the most important content that Yelp provides consumers with, and we would love to welcome a great engineer to our team!

This opportunity requires you to be located in the United Kingdom. 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:

• Build, extend, and support our backend platforms to collect all trusted business data.

• Team up with other engineering groups, such as Search, Local Services, and Ads to build instant-access APIs and streaming solutions that make it easy for them to consume business data.

• Work closely with our database teams to ensure we use the right storage stack for our level of scale.

• Build tools and services that regularly monitor and ensure this data is of high quality.

• Make build-or-buy decisions that help us reach our business goals.

• Fluency in an object-oriented language (like Python or Java), SQL (or NoSQL), Unix, and developing within a Continuous Integration/Deployment pipeline.

• Experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems that back a consumer app or website.

• In-depth experience with building effective APIs (like REST or GraphQL).

• Comfortable with performance analysis tools (e.g., tracers, profilers, debuggers, visualization tools).

• Several years of full-time working experience.

• Curiosity to uncover promising solutions to new problems, and the persistence to carry your ideas through to an end goal.

• Competitive salary, a pension scheme, and an optional employee stock purchase plan.

• 25 days paid holiday (rising to 29 with service), plus one floating holiday.

• £150 monthly reimbursement to help cover remote working expenses.

• £81 caregiver reimbursement to support dependent care for families.

• Private health insurance, including dental and vision.

• Flexible working hours and meeting-free Wednesdays.

• Regular 3-day Hackathons, bi-weekly learning groups, and productivity spending to support and encourage your career growth.

• Opportunities to participate in digital events and conferences.

• £81 per month to use toward qualifying wellness expenses.

• Quarterly team offsites.

Closing

Yelp values diversity. 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.

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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