Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software EngineerYext (NYSE: YEXT) is the enterprise agentic marketing platform. Built on the world's most comprehensive structured data platform for local businesses, Yext gives brands and their partners the visibility intelligence to win every moment of discovery – across AI and traditional search. Yext's API-first architecture connects structured data to APIs, MCP servers, and generative interfaces, so partners and developers can build purpose-built experiences on the same infrastructure powering Yext's own products. Thousands of brands and digital marketing partners in financial services, healthcare, retail, hospitality, and food rely on Yext to manage, measure, and optimize visibility at scale. For more information, visit yext.com.At Yext, Product Engineering builds and evolves the technology behind our products and services. We're looking for senior software engineers who want to solve challenging technical problems, lead the development of systems at scale, and help shape what we build next.We work in an agile environment with two-week sprints and regular demos that keep teams aligned and give engineers clear visibility into the impact of their work. As a senior engineer, you'll remain deeply involved in designing and building software while providing technical leadership to the engineers around you. You'll partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders to turn broader priorities into sound technical plans, guide projects through delivery, and help less-experienced engineers continue to grow.We are looking for a senior software engineer to join Team Recon, which owns the customer-facing intelligence layer of our Competitive Intelligence product area. Recon builds the experiences that transform our competitive intelligence datasets into meaningful insights for customers. This includes analysis, visualizations, user interfaces, and agentic workflows. In short, the team builds the "brains" on top of the data pool and owns the surfaces through which customers explore, understand, and act on competitive intelligence. Engineers on Recon work across the product stack and solve open-ended problems at the intersection of data, AI, and user experience, turning complex information into clear, compelling, and useful products.This role is based in our Rosslyn, VA office, where in-person collaboration plays an important part in how our teams work, learn, and build relationships. We're looking for people who genuinely value that environment and are comfortable coming into the office at least three days per week. At the same time, we don't prescribe specific in-office days and want employees to have the flexibility to handle personal needs without disrupting their work or team collaboration.What You'll DoServe as a technical leader for the team while continuing to contribute directly to the design, implementation, and operation of production softwareOwn complex development efforts from problem definition and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operationDesign sound technical solutions, write and review technical designs, and guide architectural and implementation decisions within the team's systemsPartner with Product and Engineering leadership to translate product priorities into technical plans, identify dependencies and risks, and help determine how the team should approach the workBreak complex technical initiatives into clear, manageable pieces and help guide engineers through successful deliverySolve difficult technical problems independently and provide guidance when other engineers encounter challengesFoster a high bar for engineering quality through thoughtful design discussions, code reviews, testing, operational readiness, and continuous improvementMentor and share knowledge with other engineers, helping less-experienced teammates strengthen their technical skills and judgmentLead production incident response and follow-up, helping the team diagnose complex problems, restore service, and make improvements that prevent recurrenceCollaborate with engineers and partners across teams to solve technical problems and coordinate work that spans multiple systems or product areasProactively identify opportunities to improve our products, architecture, systems, and engineering practices, and help drive those improvements to completionParticipate actively in recruiting and interviewing, helping us identify and hire strong engineers and maintain a high technical barUse AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully throughout design, research, implementation, testing, debugging, and code reviewCritically evaluate and validate AI-generated output, maintaining ownership of its correctness, security, scalability, maintainability, and alignment with engineering standardsModel effective AI-enabled engineering practices, experiment with new capabilities and workflows, and share successful approaches with other engineersWhat You HaveA BA/BS in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent college-level education7+ years of professional software engineering experienceA track record of leading significant technical projects and delivering complex production systemsExperience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and supporting the growth of less-experienced team membersExperience supervising or managing software engineers, or demonstrated readiness to take on direct-report responsibilitiesDeep technical judgment and a strong foundation in software architecture, design, data structures, and algorithmsExperience designing software systems, evaluating competing approaches, and communicating technical decisions clearly to other engineersThe ability to remain deeply hands-on while also guiding the technical work of othersExperience diagnosing difficult production problems and leading technical incident responseStrong communication and collaboration skills, including experience working across engineering teams and with Product or other business partnersFluency with Java, Go, C++, Python, or a similar programming language (we code primarily in Java and Go)Experience recruiting, interviewing, or evaluating software engineersExperience using AI-assisted development tools and the ability to critically evaluate their output as part of a responsible engineering workflowSound judgment regarding data privacy, intellectual property, security, and the appropriate use of confidential information when working with AI toolsOpenness to new technologies, new ways of working, and creative solutionsComfort working in a fast-paced environment