Principal Backend Engineer, Yahoo Calendar

Yahoo Holdings Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate software engineer to join their calendar engineering team. This role involves designing and implementing next-generation infrastructure and services in a dynamic environment. You will work with a complete Java stack, developing REST web-services that support millions of transactions daily. If you thrive in a collaborative culture and are excited about cloud technologies, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact while growing your skills in a supportive team of industry veterans.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software development with a strong foundation in Computer Science.
• Expertise in OOP languages like Java and C++, and experience with debugging high scale web applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop major new features impacting millions of users.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to deliver enhancements and bug fixes.

Skills

Java

C++

REST web-services

OOP

Data Structures

Algorithms

Communication Skills

Debugging

Scripting Languages (PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby)

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

Tomcat

Apache

Jetty

Kubernetes

TestNG

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!
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:

1. Responsible for the definition, design, development and timely completion of major new features in current and future products
2. Performing code reviews for your peers where you will be learning from and contributing to a collaborative working model
3. Tackling hard engineering and user experience problems and solving them in an elegant and seamless manner.
4. Taking ownership of features and areas of the application that will impact millions of users.
5. Working with engineering team members to explore and create interesting solutions while sharing knowledge amongst the team.
6. Collaborating with product managers, and other engineers to deliver new features, enhancements, platform improvements and bug fixes
7. Collaborate with other engineers to write testable, reliable code, continuously deploying to production systems
8. Growing in a culture of learning through design discussions and code reviews
9. Own, deploy, monitor and operate large scale production systems distributed across the globe.
10. Recommend alternative approaches to solving complex problems and use new technology to achieve goals

Qualifications:

1. BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 10+ year's experience
2. Experience with OOP: C++, Java, or similar
3. 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:

• Experience developing mail application
• Experience with cloud technologies like GCP/AWS
• Experience working in Unix/Linux environments
• Experience with mobile web/app development
• Experience with SCRUM or similar agile development methodology

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, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for all employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit an accommodation request or call 408-336-1409.