Senior Full Stack Engineer - Yelp

Summary

Yelp engineering culture is driven by our values: we’re a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems. All new engineers deploy working code their first week, and we strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers, mentors, and teams. At the end of the day, we’re all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment.

RepairPal, together with Yelp , is expanding our mission of bringing trust to the automotive industry—helping car owners get fair prices by connecting them with trustworthy local mechanics. As a Full Stack Engineer, you'll build the features and applications that make this mission possible.

We operate like a startup within Yelp : a small, nimble team with the speed and autonomy to move fast and own our work, backed by the resources and stability of a major tech company. You get the best of both worlds—startup culture and big company support.

Our full stack engineers contribute to every layer of product development, from designing and maintaining robust APIs and scalable backend services, to creating intuitive, polished user interfaces. You’ll help power our core operations, ensuring our platform remains reliable and user-focused.

This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular area in Canada. We welcome applicants from throughout Canada. 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:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of customer-facing, SEO-optimized, high-performance pages, setting technical direction and standards for the team.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and technical excellence.
• Support desktop and mobile experiences using responsive design.
• Architect, implement, and continuously improve backend services and APIs powering critical product features, proactively addressing scalability and reliability concerns.
• Integrate frontend components with backend systems and third-party APIs.
• Provide infrastructure and APIs to support AI/ML features and enable teams building artificial intelligence capabilities.
• Write and optimize complex SQL queries and contribute to data modeling and database performance tuning.
• Proactively identify and resolve critical technical issues, contribute to architectural discussions, and provide mentorship to team members, raising the technical bar for the group.

What it takes to succeed:

• Strong experience with React / modern JavaScript frontend development; Next.js experience preferred.
• Solid backend development skills with deep proficiency in a server-sid