Principal Software Engineer - iOS

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

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Principal Software Apps Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role offers the opportunity to work on innovative consumer-focused platforms, particularly in enhancing the Yahoo Mail experience. You will be responsible for developing new features, tackling complex engineering challenges, and collaborating with diverse teams. If you're passionate about high-quality application development and eager to contribute to a product used by millions, this is the perfect opportunity for you. Join a company that values creativity and is committed to investing in its employees' growth.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software development with a strong focus on mobile applications.
• Deep technical knowledge of iOS mobile application development and design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define, design, and develop major new features for Yahoo Mail.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

Skills

Swift

Objective-C

C++

Java

Data Structures

Algorithms

Software Design

Mobile Test Driven Development

Excellent Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Tools

XCUITest

Espresso

Roboelectric

Appium

NodeJs

TypeScript

HTML5

CSS3

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.

Job Title: Princ Software Apps Engineer

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. You will join a team of engineers who strive to deliver our users' best consumer mail experience and are willing to meticulously refine the details to achieve this goal.

A lot about YOU

You are excited about growing your skills and value high quality application development on modern tech stack and cloud. You will enjoy building the next generation of communication products, web and mobile platforms. You are interested in how best to drive tasks to completion, collaborate to achieve your goals, think through scenarios and edge cases, learn from your leadership, and understand the broader impact of your work.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the definition, design, development and timely completion of major new 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
• Tackling hard engineering and user experience problems and solving them in an elegant and seamless manner.
• Taking ownership of features and areas of the mobile application that will impact millions of users.
• Working with engineering team members to explore and create interesting solutions while sharing knowledge amongst the team.
• 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
• Own, deploy, monitor and operate large scale production systems distributed across the globe.
• Recommend alternative approaches to solving complex problems and use new technology to achieve goals

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 8+ 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 in leading app user growth initiatives
• 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

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or other protected categories. 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.