Principal Android Engineer, Yahoo Weather

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A Little About Us

We are reimagining the Yahoo Weather product experience across the company – from the Yahoo Weather apps to the Yahoo homepage. As millions of people use Yahoo Weather each day to understand how the weather will impact them, we believe that investing in a better product experience will help us fulfill Yahoo’s mission to be a trusted guide to online content and enable people to accomplish their goals no matter how big or small. We are excited to speak with Staff/Principal and Senior Staff/Senior Principal Engineers for this role.

 

A Lot About You

You are an experienced mobile client engineer who welcomes the challenge of taking a beloved consumer app to the next level. You are comfortable being one of the first members of a newly formed team. You love to collaborate with product designers to understand customer problems and deliver great user experiences. You are highly self-sufficient but also thrive when working together with teammates. And you enjoy sprints as much as strategy. 

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a small team to design, define, build, and deliver new features in the Yahoo Weather Android app

• Code – you will spend most of your time writing native code (Kotlin), including new feature development, architecture, unit tests, refactors, and bug 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

• Act as a key collaborator, resolving conflicts and building consensus – both within your own team and cross-functionally with other teams

• 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:

• 8+ years experience building and shipping native Android apps

• Excellent coding 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

• Proficiency in Kotlin, Android Studio, Android Platform Tools, Jetpack, git – all of the skills, tools, libraries and languages needed to build and support Android apps

• A willingness to learn Java and React Native for collaborating with the Weather web team

• 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

• Located in the Eastern Timezone (EST)

• An interest in weather is a big plus!

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

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