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Principal Backend Engineer, Yahoo Mail

US - United States of America, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Nov 2024

💰 $299,375/yr($143,625/yr – $299,375/yr)

About the role

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 YAHOO!
As a global email provider, Yahoo Mail is the ultimate Consumer Inbox with over 200 million users. It is the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. We create technology that changes the internet while handling billions of inbound connections per day to manage trillions of messages and events requiring petabytes of efficient storage.

A little about US
The calendar engineering team develops solutions powering our mail brands, including a next-generation infrastructure that we are 100% moving to a native public cloud architecture. The calendar team is responsible for creating the next-generation calendar and notepad experience, along with the supporting infrastructure, to help users effortlessly manage their daily lives.

A lot about YOU
You are passionate about growing your skills and value high quality BE development on modern tech stack and cloud. You will be designing and implementing the next generation calendar infrastructure and services. We are embarking on a transition from Yahoo data centers to Public cloud infrastructure. Work on a complete Java stack that serves hundreds of billions of transactions daily. Develop and maintain REST web-services that power Yahoo clients, Caldav protocol services, Caching and data processing services. 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:

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 with debugging multi-threaded high scale web applications
Experience with scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, Python, and/or Ruby
Experience with Web Technologies (Node, HTTP, JSON, DNS, TCP/IP)
Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

Preferred Qualifications: