If you know anyone who would like to work on music personalization at
Yahoo! (that fits the attached description(s), please pass along
resumes and cover letters.

Todd Beaupre
Director, Personalization
Yahoo! Music

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Technical Yahoo!, Sr - Music Web Services, Personalization

The successful candidate will be a key contributor in an engineering
group devoted to the development and maintenance of specialized, high
volume web services. These systems include
personalization/recommendation systems, playlist/sequence generation
systems and metadata transformation and delivery systems.

Requirements:

- BS Computer Science, Math, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of experience developing mission-critical software systems.
- 3+ years of experience developing using the Java programming
language in application server environments (minimum Servlet API, full
J2EE preferred).
- 2+ years of experience developing multitiered solutions in a
heterogeneous environment.
- Experience developing software in the Unix environment.
- Good interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Intelligent, self-directed, motivated, responsible person who has
good work ethics and is willing to be challenged.
- Enjoys a fast paced, exciting environment that blends the Internet,
technology and music.

Desired Skills:

- Experience developing and deploying J2EE applications; current JBoss
experience a plus.
- Experience with Web Services methodologies (REST, SOAP) and
associated toolsets.
- Comfortable with XML technologies such as Schema, XSL/XSLT, DOM, SAX.
- Experience with data mining, machine learning, statistical methods,
or other modeling methodologies.
- Experience with high volume, high availability systems; testing,
metrics and monitoring methodologies.
- Knowledge of Apache configuration, module authoring (C/C++).
- Experience with complex platform migration and integration.

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Technical Yahoo! - Music Web Services, Personalization

The successful candidate will be a key contributor in an engineering
group devoted to the development and maintenance of specialized, high
volume web services. These systems include
personalization/recommendation systems, playlist/sequence generation
systems and metadata transformation and delivery systems.

Requirements:

- BS Computer Science, Math, or equivalent.
- 4+ years of experience developing mission-critical software systems.
- 2+ years of experience developing using the Java programming
language in application server environments (minimum Servlet API, full
J2EE preferred).
- Experience developing software in the Unix environment.
- Good interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Intelligent, self-directed, motivated, responsible person who has
good work ethics and is willing to be challenged.
- Enjoys a fast paced, exciting environment that blends the Internet,
technology and music.

Desired Skills:

- Experience developing and deploying J2EE applications; current JBoss
experience a plus.
- Experience with Web Services methodologies (REST, SOAP) and
associated toolsets.
- Comfortable with XML technologies such as Schema, XSL/XSLT, DOM, SAX.