Principal Software Apps Engineer, Yahoo Mail

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 YAHOO!
Yahoo, with a strong foundation of 900 million users monthly, is in the midst of a renaissance; backed by substantial investment to drive meaningful, long-term growth, led by great products. Are you up for the challenge of writing a chapter on one of the biggest consumer product success stories in history? This won’t be easy, but if you’re motivated by huge opportunities, backed by an organization that is ready to invest in bold initiatives, and can’t wait to start building, Yahoo is the place for you.

A little about US
Yahoo is composed of organizations, each led by a GM, driving key product lines. This role is within the Yahoo Mail group, which includes its flagship product, Yahoo Mail. You will be starting on offense; the product line (4.5+ star apps & responsive web experiences), business, and tech (modern front-end stacks with significant backend re-architecture just beginning) provide a healthy start, with lots of upside to realize. Now, we need you to be a key part of our next chapter - embarking on the mission to create the best consumer-focused platform for running the “business of life,” in email and beyond. You will join a team of engineers who strive to deliver our users best consumer mail experience and are willing to meticulously refine the details to achieve this goal.

A lot about YOU
You are passionate about growing your skills and value high quality application development on modern tech stack and cloud. You will enjoy building the next generation of communication products, web and mobile platforms. You are interested in how best to drive tasks to completion, collaborate to achieve your goals, think through scenarios and edge cases, learn from your leadership, and understand the broader impact of your work. If you are interested in joining a world-class team of passionate people and industry veterans who care about code quality, architecture, design and user experience as much as having fun together, then we’d like to talk to you.
Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the definition, design, development and timely completion of major new features in current and future products
• Performing code reviews for your peers where you will be learning from and contributing to a collaborative working model
• Tackling hard engineering and user experience problems and solving them in an elegant and seamless manner
• Taking ownership of features and areas of the web application that will impact millions of users.
• Working with engineering team members to explore and create interesting solutions while sharing knowledge amongst the team.
• Collaborating with user experience designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver new features, enhancements, platform improvements and bug fixes
• Collaborate with other engineers to write testable, reliable code, continuously deploying to production systems
• Growing in a culture of learning through design discussions and code reviews
• Deploy, monitor and operate large scale production systems distributed across the globe
• Recommend alternative approaches to solving complex problems and use new technology to achieve goals

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 8+ year’s experience
• Strong foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
• Deep technical knowledge of responsive design and javascript frameworks such as React / Angular / Ember and Node.js
• Deep technical knowledge of web application development with strong command of browser-side client technologies including AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript and object-oriented Javascript
• Expert in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture
• Experience with Web Technologies (Webpack, Superagent, Babel, Web Vitals, Redux Toolkit, Atomic CSS, Storybook, JSON and REST APIs)
• Experience with test driven development, unit test / UI test frameworks such as Jest / Selenium / WebdriverIO / React Testing Library / Mock Service Worker / Playwright is an added advantage
• Expert knowledge of web application performance, stability and debugging
• Ability to work well with diverse groups of people, geographically dispersed across the world
• Good communicator, enjoys helping people, remains friendly and constructive under stress

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing mail application
• Experience with AI, ML and GenAI
• Experience working in Unix/Linux environments
• Experience with mobile web development
• Experience with Scrum, Squad or similar agile development methodology

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, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for all employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit an accommodation request or call 408-336-1409.For more information or to search all of our openings please visit.https://www.yahooinc.com/careers/

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.

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.

At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion (www.yahooinc.com/diversity/) page to learn more.

The compensation for this position ranges from $143,625.00 - $299,375.00/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. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements. 

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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