Software Engineer

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®!

As a Software Engineer, Web, you are responsible for working directly with our product, documentation and marketing team to build cutting edge websites built with React. We take pride in our ability to handle a variety of tasks and come up with creative solutions for our teammates using a variety of technologies. 

We are a small but scrappy engineering team that utilizes two-week sprint development cycles, daily standups, peer code reviews and individual project ownership. We maintain our own Design System and power our websites with our own Knowledge Graph and maintain our Multi-language features with a custom built Account Translator tool. In addition, we maintain homegrown templates to maintain our documentation and training websites using Vue and Hugo. Maintain our help site built on Zendesk.

The web team leverages Yext's products and works alongside the product team to help innovate internally and enhance the experience of our own customers.

You’ll be working hybrid: based in our Budapest Office and working with team members based in the US and London. True international experience is loaded for you!

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and maintain robust features for our web properties.
• Take ownership of feature development from concept to implementation, ensuring alignment with goals and strategies.
• Implement new features that enhance user engagement, conversion rates, and overall website performance.
• Create responsive and visually appealing web pages that cater to a diverse audience, considering various devices, languages & screen sizes.
• Help conduct regular performance analysis and optimization of the website to ensure fast load times and smooth user interactions.
• Implement best practices for SEO.
• Conduct thorough testing of developed features to identify and resolve bugs, ensuring a high level of quality and reliability.
• Consider internationalization and localization at every step of the development process.

What you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 2-3 years experience in modern Web Development
• Proficiency in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript most importantly typescript and React
• Experience with back-end development using server-side and/or scripting languages (Node.js, Python, Ruby, etc.) 
• Familiarity with version control systems such as Git and agile development methodologies.

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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.