Job description
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®!
We’re excited to share that Yext has recently joined forces with Hearsay Systems, forming a unified organization that is stronger than ever. This strategic acquisition enhances our ability to deliver world-class solutions by combining industry-leading digital presence management with compliant engagement solutions across social media, text, and voice. As we begin this exciting new chapter together, we’re looking for passionate, driven individuals to help us integrate and continue to innovate in our shared mission.
This role will be part of the Hearsay team, now an integral part of Yext.
Hearsay is looking for a talented frontend software engineer to join our Web Platform team!
The Web Platform Team is a highly collaborative team at Hearsay. We design and maintain the UI infrastructure as well as build tools for engineers at the company to make sure their apps are reliable, resilient, performant, and scalable.
We are looking for someone to work closely with dedicated us and peer engineers to offer users a robust experience through tooling, automation, and advocacy.
This is a distributed team, so being comfortable collaborating in a remote environment is important.
What You’ll Do
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of global user facing features such as navigation and notifications that are used across the company’s platform.
- Build internal tooling and infrastructure to support product engineers in delivering their features at scale.
- Collaborate closely with other engineers at the company to identify pain points in the developer experience and implement reusable solutions.
- Help define and implement engineering best practices across shared codebases.
- Work with designers, product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure features meet high standards for accessibility, performance, and consistency.
- Participate in sprint planning, code reviews, and system design discussions to improve both team velocity and code quality.
- Write and maintain documentation to support adoption of global tools and features.
What You Have
- 3+ years of professional experience building web applications with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, or similar).
- Solid understanding of frontend architecture and how to build scalable and maintainable UI code.
- Experience building shared features or tools that serve multiple teams and products.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and breaking down complex problems into incremental solutions.
- Strong collaborator who communicates well with engineers, designers, and PMs.
- Familiarity with modern build tools and bundlers (Webpack, Vite, etc.) and testing frameworks.
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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.
