Yelp
Yelp

Software Engineer - Full Stack (Remote - Canada)

April 21, 2025
Full-time
Remote · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mid-Senior level
Back-end Developer

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.

Are you looking to join a team where your work makes a significant impact and reaches millions of users? At Yelp, our goal is to deliver an exceptional experience for our users, and our full stack engineers play a key role in making that happen. Full stack engineers work across all areas of the web stack and contribute to product development by building the features and applications that make Yelp the best platform to find and support local businesses.

In this role, you will have the flexibility to grow your career across a wide subset of software development areas. You will contribute to the development of highly performant APIs on the backend as well as create the user-facing components that our millions of users interact with every day.

If you enjoy getting a broad, in-depth understanding of how to build applications at scale, full stack is the role for you.

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

  • Design and build scalable features to help yelp users discover and engage with businesses.
  • Implement beautiful features that are modern and responsive.
  • Deploy projects in a Service-Oriented Architecture—from backend services to fully-featured UIs.
  • Run A/B experiments and dive into the resulting data to look for trends.
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams.
  • Grow through mentorship from peers and give back by helping others develop their skills.

What It Takes To Succeed

  • Deep understanding of at least one popular server side web framework (Django, Flask, Rails, Pyramid, Laravel, Express, etc.) or modern JS frontend framework (React, Angular, Vue, Ember, etc.).
  • Understanding of web security and performance best practices.
  • Comfortable working in a Unix Environment.

What You'll Get

  • Compensation range is $85,000-237,000 annually. Depending on your role and level, you may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
  • This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across Canada.
  • You can find more information about Yelp's five star benefits here!

Closing

At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values, which include “Playing Well With Others” and “Authenticity.”

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other protected status.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or 1-415-969-8488.

Note: Yelp does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to any recruiting alias or employee. Yelp is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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