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Senior Software Engineer

Washington, D.C.Full-time2026-10-22 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Senior software engineer leading the development of the customer-facing intelligence layer for Yext's Competitive Intelligence product, transforming datasets into insights via analysis, visualizations, and agentic workflows.

Role type

Senior IC software engineer with technical leadership

Builds

Customer-facing intelligence surfaces, analysis tools, visualizations, and agentic workflows for competitive intelligence

Domain

Enterprise SaaS, Competitive Intelligence, AI/ML

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Software architecture, system design, data structures, algorithms, Java, Go, C++, Python, incident response, technical mentoring, AI-assisted development, code review

Preferred skills

Experience supervising/managing engineers, recruiting/interviewing engineers, AI output validation

Technologies

Java, Go, C++, Python, AI-assisted development tools

Responsibilities

Lead complex development efforts from design to deployment, design sound technical solutions, partner with leadership on technical plans, mentor less-experienced engineers, lead production incident response, evaluate and validate AI-generated output, participate in recruiting

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership