Senior Software Apps Engineer, Mobile (IC4)

ouryahoo; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 73,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Pension

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Yahoo Mail in Ireland is seeking an experienced mobile engineer to own the iOS app development from design to delivery, collaborating with designers, PMs and other engineers.

You will work in a team that ships high-quality features for hundreds of millions of users, participate in code reviews, ensure performance and reliability, and attend on-site Dublin sessions once a week as part of a flexible hybrid model.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent).
• Strong OO programming experience: Swift, Objective-C, C++, Java or similar.
• Strong foundation in CS with data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Deep knowledge of iOS mobile app development and lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical design and implementation of complex, high-quality features in current and future products.
• Performing code reviews for peers in a collaborative model.
• Tackle and resolve challenging engineering and UX problems within the app.
• Take ownership of the technical delivery of significant features impacting millions of users.
• Mentor junior/mid engineers through reviews, design discussions, and pairing.
• Collaborate with UX designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver new features, enhancements and fixes.
• Write testable, reliable code and deploy to production systems.
• Grow in a culture of learning through design discussions and code reviews.
• Ensure health, performance, and stability of features you own in a large-scale environment.
• Recommend new approaches and technologies to meet goals.

Skills

Swift

Objective-C

C++

Java

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

XCUITest

Espresso

Roboelectric

Appium

Kiwi

Job description

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 is a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people worldwide, empowering them to achieve their goals online through a portfolio of iconic products. We connect users to what they love — from mail, finance, and sports to shopping, news, and entertainment — through trusted experiences, meaningful content, and technology that power their everyday lives.

About Our Team

Yahoo is made up of several organizations, each led by a GM and focused on driving key product lines. This role sits within the Yahoo Mail group, home to our flagship product, Yahoo Mail. You’ll be joining a team — that has a great product line, with its 4.5+ star app experiences, strong business foundation, and robust technology, is well-positioned in the consumer communication space. Now, we’re entering our next chapter: building the most consumer-focused platform for managing the “business of life,” through email and beyond. You’ll join a team of engineers dedicated to delivering the best consumer mail experience, meticulously refining every detail to make that vision a reality.

A lot about YOU

You’re committed to growing your skills and building high-quality applications using modern technologies and cloud platforms. You thrive on creating the next generation of communication products across mobile or web. You take pride in driving projects to completion, collaborating effectively, thinking through edge cases, and understanding the broader impact of your work. You enjoy learning from experienced leaders and working with a world-class team that values clean architecture, thoughtful design, and great user experiences—while having fun along the way. If that sounds like you, we’d love to talk.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the technical design and implementation of complex, high-quality 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
• Tackle and resolve complex engineering and user experience challenges within the application.
• Take ownership of the technical delivery of significant features and functional areas of the mobile application that will impact millions of users.
• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and pairing to elevate the team's technical standards and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborating with user experience designers, 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
• Ensure the health, performance, and stability of features you own, including monitoring, deploying, and operating your solutions in a large-scale production environment.
• Recommend alternative approaches to solving complex problems and use new technology to achieve goals

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 6+ year’s experience
• Strong OO programming experience: Swift, Objective-C, C++, Java or similar
• Strong foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
• Deep technical knowledge of iOS mobile application development with a solid understanding of the framework components and their life cycles.
• Expert in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture
• Experience with mobile test driven development using XCUITest, Espresso, Roboelectric, Appium, Kiwi or similar technologies
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building apps with ReactNative
• Experience with AI, ML and GenAI
• Shipped an app to the Apple Play store
• Experience developing Mobile applications frameworks and/or SDK solutions for Identity, Payments, Analytics
• Experience with Web Technologies (NodeJs, JSON, TypeScript, HTML5 and CSS3)
• Experience with SCRUM or similar agile development methodology
• Leverage AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) as a core part of your daily workflow to accelerate development velocity and optimize code quality.

Please Note:

To support collaboration in this newly established team, the role requires on-site attendance at our Dublin office one day per week.

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in‑person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on‑site work sessions, team‑building, or other in‑person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements.

The compensation for this position ranges from €72,600.00 - €121,000.00 /yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. Your package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our benefits include healthcare, pension and a flexible package you can adapt to your own needs.