Principal Data Visualization Engineer

Yahoo Finance is the world’s #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. They are seeking a Principal Data Visualization Engineer to lead the design and development of advanced financial charts and interactive visualizations while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams. This role focuses on building scalable visualization frameworks and delivering interactive frontend experiences that enhance user engagement with financial data.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, and develop sophisticated financial charts, dashboards, and interactive data visualizations for our frontend web applications
• Build reusable visualization components and frameworks that can be leveraged across multiple products and teams
• Lead frontend development efforts using React, D3, TypeScript, and modern web technologies
• Translate complex financial and market data into intuitive, performant, and visually compelling charting experiences
• Establish best practices for visualization architecture, frontend performance, accessibility, testing, and maintainability
• Partner with product, design, editorial, and data teams to define visualization requirements and deliver impactful user experiences
• Optimize rendering performance for large-scale and real-time financial datasets
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance to engineers across the organization
• Drive technical strategy and contribute to long-term roadmap planning for data visualization platforms and capabilities
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, frameworks, and approaches that improve visualization quality and developer productivity

Requirements:

• 8–10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant focus on frontend web applications and data visualization
• Extensive experience designing and building interactive data visualizations for production web applications
• Expert-level proficiency with React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript development
• Deep expertise with D3.js and visualization techniques for complex datasets
• Experience building financial, analytical, or data-intensive applications that present large volumes of information to users
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture, performance optimization, browser rendering, and responsive design
• Experience creating reusable component libraries, visualization frameworks, or shared frontend platforms
• Understanding of financial charting methodologies, formulas, analy
• Demonstrated ability to lead large technical initiatives and influence engineering direction across teams
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience partnering across engineering, product, design, and business stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience developing financial market visualizations, trading applications, portfolio analytics, or other fintech products
• Familiarity with common financial data visualizations, including line, candle, bar and baseline delta graphs
• Familiarity with real-time data streaming, market data feeds, and time-series visualization techniques
• Experience with accessibility standards and inclusive design practices for data visualization
• Knowledge of charting libraries, WebGL, Canvas rendering, or advanced graphics technologies
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and serving as a technical lead for cross-functional initiatives
• Passion for financial markets, investing, data storytelling, and information design