Sr Backend 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. The Xobni platform is the Contacts and Contact-based Relationship and Recommendation platform for Yahoo Mail. We are a large scale distributed platform that serves hundreds of millions of users serving billions of requests everyday with low latency and high reliability. Our platform requires extreme reliability, resilience, and performance. We are tackling some of the toughest challenges in architecture design, algorithm development, and data engineering. There are innumerable opportunities to innovate in all these areas. 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. 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
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: 

• Working on projects of diverse scope and complexity, design, build, implement, modify, test, debug and deploy software systems, large-scale infrastructure platforms and network services

• Responsible for performance, reliability, availability, scalability and security

• Collect requirements for product features from product team. come up with design specifications for the features and conduct formal and informal design reviews with the team

• Implement final design with low latency and stand alone technologies including tests

• Launch it for bucket (A/Bl testing for small percentage of the users and once the experiment is successful launch it widely for all our users.

Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field with a strong understanding of the fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms, OS, and Networking

• 6+ years experience in software development with Java and/or C++

• 3+ years experience in owning and designing components of large-scale systems Demonstrated problem-solving skills and taking initiatives

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing mail application

• Experience with AI, ML and GenAI

• Experience with cloud technologies like AWS/GCP

• Experience with SCRUM or similar agile development methodology

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 i