at Yahoo Holdings 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.
It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. Whether you're looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world. Want in?
A Little About Us
Yahoo Fantasy Sports is a passionate development team that has an equally passionate user base. We work on both Season Long and Daily Fantasy products delivering a high quality feature rich product to please our users. We work in a deadline driven environment while still having a culture of fun and fandom.
A Lot About You
You are an experienced, motivated engineer who is passionate about mobile app development and building high quality products. You thrive working as part of a team of smart, talented engineers and product designers who value team discussions and sharing constructive feedback. You are curious, driven, and enjoy challenging work.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with other developers and designers to help define, build, and deliver new features in our Sports mobile apps
- Code -- you will spend most of your time building Android apps, efficiently coding in Java / Kotlin. This includes new feature development, architecture, writing unit tests, refactors, and bug/crash fixes.
- Share responsibilities like app architecture/design reviews, code reviews, performance tuning, and build pipeline management
- Own and deliver -- from the small must-do tasks to larger, complex projects with many moving parts
- Share your opinions and help shape our technical direction, best practices, product ideas, and team processes. We value and depend on your input!
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience building Android apps that have been successfully launched
- Solid coding chops, code design skills, and practitioner of mobile development best practices -- including object-oriented design principles; design pattern usage; writing modular, reusable, testable code; data structures; concurrency; performance profiling and tuning
- Developing proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Android Studio, Gradle, git, etc. -- the skills and tools needed to build Android apps
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills
- The quintessential teammate -- great communicator, adaptable, supportive, hard working, and enjoys a good laugh
Preferred Qualifications:
- BS in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent CS training
- Being a sports fan is a big 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...
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