We are seeking a senior software engineer who is passionate about growing their skills and value high quality application development on modern tech stack and cloud. As the Senior Software Engineer on Yahoo Mail (Web), 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:
Provide technical leadership to engineers in fast-paced environment
Enforce design reviews, code reviews, continuous integration and test driven development
Drive technical excellence and implementation of best engineering practices
Lead hands-on implementation work to keep current with technology trends inside and outside Yahoo
Build and deliver high quality and high performance features for our users on Web (Node.js/ReactJs).
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.
Analyze and optimize application/platform code and/or APIs for efficiency and performance
Qualifications:
BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 6+ year’s experience
Strong foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
Strong command of responsive design and javascript frameworks such as React / Angular / Ember and Node.js
Strong command of browser-side client technologies including AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript and object-oriented Javascrip
Experience 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
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 with mobile web development
Experience with Scrum, Squad or similar agile development methodology
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.
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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.