at Yahoo! Inc. in Champaign, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Yahoo Sports is one of the internet's leading destinations for comprehensive sports news and innovative fantasy games. We produce insightful content across multiple platforms and curate quality coverage from around the web to inform and entertain fans. We're an original fantasy sports pioneer, with a legacy of innovation that helps us continue to be a fantasy leader. And as one of the most-visited sports platforms on the internet, we're one of the best places for brands to reach fans.
A Little About Us
Yahoo Sports connects fans to the sports and fantasy games they love most. We are passionate about building best-in-class sports apps that deliver real-time, personalized quality content, and a superior experience to millions of sports fans worldwide. At Yahoo Sports, "Fans come first."
A Lot About You
You are an experienced, motivated engineer who is passionate about mobile app development and building high quality, engaging products. You thrive working as part of a team of smart, talented engineers and product designers who value efficiency, creativity, and a trusted, collaborative work environment. You are curious, driven, and enjoy challenging work.
Responsibilities
- Code in Swift -- to help build and evolve our Sports iOS App -- with an emphasis on quality, performance, testability, modularity and maintainability
- Collaborate with other engineers and designers to help define, build and deliver new features, and further modernize our codebase
- Demonstrate engineering leadership and expertise through technical and architecture design guidance, code reviews, embodying coding best practices, performance optimizing, build pipeline and automation support, mentoring
- Own and deliver -- from the small must-do tasks, to large, complex projects with many moving parts - this includes leading projects and development initiatives
- Share your opinions on, and help drive, our technical direction, best practices, product designs/ideas, team processes, peer feedback - we value, and depend on, your input!
Minimum Qualifications
- Strong coding chops, code design skills and expertise in software development best practices -- including mobile app development; object-oriented design; writing modular, reusable, testable code; writing unit tests; data structures; design patterns; concurrency; performance profiling and tuning
- 3+ years of experience in building and shipping native, production iOS apps
- Proficiency in Xcode, Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, iOS frameworks/APIs, git, etc - all of the skills, tools, libraries and languages needed to build and support iOS apps
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills
- The quintessential teammate -- high EQ, great communicator, adaptable, supportive, hard working and enjoys a good laugh
- BS in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent CS training
- Being a sports fan is a plus!
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 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...
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