Sr Software Dev Engineer, Yahoo Calendar

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!

Yahoo, with a strong foundation of 900 million users monthly, is in the midst of a renaissance; backed by substantial investment to drive meaningful, long-term growth, led by great products. Are you up for the challenge of writing a chapter on one of the biggest consumer product success stories in history? This won’t be easy, but if you’re motivated by huge opportunities, backed by an organization that is ready to invest in bold initiatives, and can’t wait to start building, Yahoo is the place for you.

A little about US

Yahoo is composed of organizations, each led by a GM, driving key product lines. This role is within the Yahoo Mail group, which includes its flagship product, Yahoo Mail. You will be starting on offense; the product line (4.5+ star apps & responsive web experiences), business, and tech (modern front-end stacks with significant backend re-architecture just beginning) provide a healthy start, with lots of upside to realize. Now, we need you to be a key part of our next chapter -  embarking on the mission to create the best consumer-focused platform for running the “business of life,” in email and beyond. 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: 

• Provide technical leadership to engineers in fast-paced environment

• Drive design reviews, code reviews, continuous integration and test driven development

• Drive technical excellence and implementation of best engineering practices

• Lead hands-on implementation work to keep current with technology trends inside and outside Yahoo

• Build and deliver high quality and high performance features for our users on calendar BE Platform.

• Collaborate with frontend team, 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

• Deploy, monitor and operate large scale production systems distributed across the globe. 

• Analyze and optimize application/platform code and/or APIs for efficiency and performance

• Growing in a culture of learning through design discussions and code reviews

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 6+ year’s experience

• Experience with OOP: C++, Java, C#, 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

• Experience 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