at Yahoo! Inc. in Champaign, Illinois, United States
Job Description
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
Growth client engineering team primarily focuses on creative ways to drive user growth, retention, engagement and activation. This team innovates, experiments and builds seamless user experiences of the next generation across Android, iOS and Web platforms for Yahoo Mail users. Yahoo Mail continues to be one of the largest and most recognizable email services in the world. Delivering over 4.5B emails daily, and with consistently top-rated mobile apps, Yahoo Mail is a critical pillar in the company's long-term growth strategy. You will join a team of engineers who strive to create a compelling and cohesive experience for user growth on the Mail product.
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 lead a client team on web for user acquisition and retention. You will closely work with the product, marketing, and design team to plan, experiment and release features in collaboration with other engineering partners across client teams. You will enjoy building user growth- oriented next generation of communication features on web 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 business growth, technology, 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 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 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
- Own, 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 10+ year's experience
- Experience with OOP: C++, Java, or similar
- Experience with web servers like Tomcat/Apache/Jetty, Kubernetes framework, TestNG framework
- Strong foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- Expert in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture
- Experience...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
