Sr. Backend Software Engineer, Yahoo Mail

Posted 18 Days Ago
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United States of America
128K-267K Annually
Senior level
AdTech • Digital Media • Information Technology • Other
The Role
Design, implement, and debug features for Yahoo Mail, provide technical leadership, and mentor a distributed engineering team while ensuring best practices in agile development.
Summary Generated by Built In

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It’s the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.

A Little About Us: 

We build, enhance, and maintain one of the highest scaling email platforms on the planet. We are the first component in the mail back end, a middle tier, that contains the APIs and business logic through which virtually all mail operations flow. We implement REST APIs for our world-class mail clients (mobile, web, Yahoo, AOL, etc), standards-based protocols (IMAP, POP, etc) for generic mail clients, and industry leading back-end mail synchronization. We impact approximately 300 Million users every month, serving billions of requests a day across servers across the world, and are critical to Yahoo’s success. We do this on highly scalable applications in private and public clouds, that we are in the process of transforming to 100% native cloud.

Come join this amazing team of Engineers, Product Managers and Designers to work on next generation innovative experiences transforming how users connect with each other every day! 

Responsibilities: 

  • Design, implement, test, and debug features in mail supporting client features; revise and refine as required 

  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects

  • Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers

  • Request and participate in code reviews 

  • Participate in agile development with weekly sprints, planning & estimating work, daily standup, & retrospectives 

  • Learn from a multitude of sources, including on the job project experience, reviewing code from others, team education sessions, collaborating with peers, frequently soliciting advice & shoulder reviews from leaders & architects, as well as online or class-based learning 

  • Take initiative to identify, solve, and pursue problems you discover to full completion 

  • Contribute to best practices and work culture of our team 

  • Promote and solicit ideas within project teams 

A Lot About You: 

You enjoy solving problems within a collaborative team. You have an interest in the full life-cycle of a product - designing, coding, testing, reviewing, launching, and troubleshooting. You will have the opportunity to participate in projects with significant impact on the success of Yahoo.

  • Experience in OOP. Java or C++ preferred

  • Experience in cloud native application development and architecture preferably in GCP or AWS

  • Strong understanding of the fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms, OS and Networking

  • Experience with development on Unix (Linux) platform

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience 

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or related field 

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • REST API (with Jersey and/or Servlets 3.0)

  • Multi-threaded programming and/or understanding contention issues

  • Large-scale, large user base development

  • Web-scale or enterprise-scale development

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome. Check out our diversity and inclusion (www.yahooinc.com/diversity/) page to learn more.

The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.

Top Skills

Algorithms
AWS
C++
Data Structures
GCP
Java
Linux
Multi-Threaded Programming
Rest Api
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The Company
HQ: Sunnyvale, CA
10,001 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900 million people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news—with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.

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