Software Engineering Lead

Job Description

Yext (NYSE: YEXT) helps organizations answer every question about their business. Yext's Answers Platform collects and organizes content into a Knowledge Graph, then leverages a complementary set of products — including Listings, Pages, Reviews, and Search — to deliver relevant, actionable answers wherever customers, employees, and partners look for information. For over 15 years, thousands of companies worldwide have trusted Yext to create seamless content-driven experiences at scale across search engines, websites, mobile apps, and hundreds of other digital touchpoints. Learn more at yext.com.

Yext Services team works with Yext’s largest clients to deliver highly customized and integrated products! Our team includes Project Management, Creative, and Development resources that work together to deliver end-to-end solutions. We take pride in our ability to tackle a wide breadth and depth of challenges and keep pace with the ever-changing needs of our clients. We are looking for a Software Engineering Lead to help lead a team of engineers in building custom web and backend solutions for our enterprise clients. Our team features a Scrum development process with one-week sprints, peer code reviews and individual ownership of projects from kickoff to delivery. You will work alongside engineers from the top universities and tech companies in the world, hands-on with the code from day one.
Successful candidates will be seasoned software engineers with experience leading teams, decomposing functional specifications into work items, writing technical design documents, and delivering code. Candidates must be well-organized and deadline-oriented.
What You'll Do

• Lead full life-cycle software development for a team of engineers
• Drive the development process through design, implementation, deployment and ongoing maintenance
• Mentor team members, encouraging career and personal growth
• Ensure your team meets deadlines and launch dates through an effective sprint planning process and daily standups
• Collaborate effectively across teams, including outside of engineering
• Build, modify and maintain web applications with HTML/CSS/Javascript, ensuring compatibility across multiple browsers and platforms
• Advise engineering & business stakeholders on best practices, compatibility issues and tradeoffs
• Augment development tooling to improve software quality, iteration speed, and maintainability using modern technologies
• Bridge the gap between engineering and product, working equally well with Designers and Project Management
• Write clean, tested, and well-documented code

What You Have

• BS or above in Computer Science, a related field, or similar college level education
• 5+ year of industry experience
• 2+ years of experience leading a team of 3+ engineers
• Ability to proactively understand and communicate issues before they become blockers to projects
• Comfortable with a variety of frontend technologies: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Ability to easily move between backend and frontend technologies
• Openness to new technologies and creative solutions
• Comfortable working within a fast-paced high growth startup environment

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with React, TypeScript, Go and/or Java
• Contribution to open source projects

Perks and Benefits
YEXT takes great pride in its diverse workforce and we go length and breadth to ensure we have a highly engaged and connected working environment. We have a big, audacious mission to transform the enterprise with AI search. To achieve that, we need a global team made up of the brightest innovators, visionary thought leaders, and enthusiastic collaborators who care about making a difference in the world while building an amazing culture in the process.
We follow an annual performance appraisal policy and include a great bonus model in our pay structure. We believe that people do their best when they feel their best — and in order to feel their best, they must be well informed, fuelled, and rested. To ensure our employees are at their best, we provide the following perks.

1. Attractive Bonus and Stock options for eligible positions
2. A whole suite of best in class leave bouquet: Paid Time Off , Maternity leave, Paternity leave, Sick leave, Casual Leaves, National Holidays etc.
3. Medical insurance benefits of 5L covering parents (including COVID hospitalization)
4. Relocation benefits
5. World class office infrastructure with Gaming rooms, plush pantry and Break out areas.

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Yext is committed to building an inclusive and diverse culture where every person is seen, heard and valued. We believe in equal employment opportunity and welcome employees and applicants of all races, colors, ethnicities, religions, creeds, national origins, ancestries, genetics, sexes, pregnancy or childbirth, sexual orientations, genders (including gender identity or nonbinary or nonconformity and/or status as a trans individual), ages, physical or mental disabilities, citizenships, marital, parental and/or familial status, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. It is Yext’s policy to provide reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities as required by law. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, or participating in the employee selection process, please complete this form .