Principal Backend Engineer, Yahoo Mail

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 USThe 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 YOUYou 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: Responsible for the definition, design, development and timely completion of major new features in current and future productsPerforming code reviews for your peers where you will be learning from and contributing to a collaborative working modelTackling hard engineering and user experience problems and solving them in an elegant and seamless manner.Taking ownership of features and areas of the 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 product managers, and other engineers to deliver new features, enhancements, platform improvements and bug fixesCollaborate with other engineers to write testable, reliable code, continuously deploying to production systemsGrowing in a culture of learning through design discussions and code reviewsOwn, 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 goalsQualificationsBS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 10 year's experienceExperience with OOP: C, Java, or similarExperience with web servers like Tomcat/Apache/Jetty, Kubernetes framework, TestNG frameworkStrong foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software designExpert in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architectureExperience with debugging multi-threaded high scale web applicationsExperience with scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, Python, and/or RubyExperience with Web Technologies (Node, HTTP, JSON, DNS, TCP/IP)Excellent communication skills, both written and oralPreferred QualificationsExperience developing mail applicationExperience working in Unix/Linux environmentsExperience with mobile web/app developmentExperience with SCRUM or similar agile development methodologyYahoo 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.For more information or to search all of our openings please visithttps: //www.yahooinc.com/careers/The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering toYahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibitingtrustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.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.At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion ( www.yahooinc.com/diversity/ ) page to learn more.The compensation for this position ranges from $143, 625.00 - $299, 375.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.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.If you're curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identityMinimum Salary: 0.00

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