Senior Software Eng, Core Mail Backend

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with over 220 million 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

We build, enhance, and maintain one of the highest scaling email platforms on the planet.  We are the first component in the mail back end, a middle tier, that contains the APIs and business logic through which virtually all mail operations flow.  We implement REST APIs for our world-class mail clients (mobile, web, Yahoo, AOL, etc), standards-based protocols (IMAP, POP, etc) for generic mail clients, and industry leading back-end mail synchronization.  We own the data platform in metadata, storage, and indexing.  And we build even more supporting systems that are part of or support our array of serving and data components.

We directly impact approximately 300 Million users every month, serving billions of requests a day across servers & cloud solutions across the world, and are critical to Yahoo’s success.  Our logged-in experience offers even greater value to the rest of Yahoo.  We achieve high scale on each server using async technologies developed in house as well as from open source and cloud technologies. We take an industry leading number of connections, in the order of 100s of thousands on a single server or instance to achieve a very cost friendly footprint.  We have a unique opportunity to do hard, challenging work, solving problems at a rare scale, innovating to meet our product & users future needs, & continually modernizing, while sustaining an essential service to users’ daily lives.

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox.  It is 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.  This is part of our platform to serve in the business of life for our users with significant user growth potential in hundreds of millions, or even billions in addressable market opportunity.  Come join this amazing team of Engineers, Product Managers and Designers to work on next generation innovative experiences transforming how users connect with each other every day.

A Lot About You

We are looking for smart people, with strong CS fundamentals, that collaborate well, learn quickly, and value high quality code.  The most successful engineers own and drive their tasks to completion, collaborate well to achieve their goal, can think through scenarios and edge cases, learn from our leadership, and understand the broader impact.  If you are excited about the whole life-cycle of a product - designing, coding, testing, reviewing, launching, and troubleshooting, this is the place to be.  You will learn and gain hands-on experience while engaged in projects with significant impact on the success of Yahoo.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and debug features in mail supporting client features; revise and refine as required.

• Request and participate in code reviews.

• Participate in agile development with weekly sprints, planning & estimating work, daily standup, & retrospectives.

• Learn from a multitude of sources, including on the job project experience, reviewing code from others, team education sessions, collaborating with peers, frequently soliciting advice & shoulder reviews from leaders & architects, as well as online or class-based learning.

• Take initiative to identify, solve, and pursue problems you discover to full completion.

• Contribute to best practices and work culture of our team.

• Promote and solicit ideas within project teams.

Qualifications:

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field with a strong record of academic achievement.

• Programming proficiency in a high level language (preferably Java or C++).

• Proficient in Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, OS and networking.

• 4+ Years Experience

• Proficient in software engineering processes & tools for coding, testing, and debugging.

• Significant professional experience in Software Development.

• Experience with object-oriented programming concepts, large-scale software architecture, networking and distributed systems, and UNIX/Linux environments.

• Experience designing and developing high performing complex server applications.

• Proven track record of technical leadership, including responsibility for design or architecture.

• Great communication and collaborate well with a team