Principal Backend Engineer, Yahoo Mail - JR0024995_TN

$299,000 - $299,000/Yr

Yahoo Holdings - Nashville, TN

Full-time - Senior

Onsite - Nashville, TN

About the position

The Principal Backend Engineer for Yahoo Mail will be responsible for designing and implementing the next-generation calendar infrastructure and services. This role involves working with a modern tech stack and cloud architecture to enhance user experience for millions of users. The engineer will tackle complex engineering problems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure high-quality software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Define, design, develop, and complete major new features in current and future products.
• Perform code reviews and contribute to a collaborative working model.
• Solve engineering and user experience problems elegantly.
• Take ownership of features impacting millions of users.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to deliver new features and enhancements.
• Write testable, reliable code and continuously deploy to production systems.
• Monitor and operate large scale production systems globally.
• Recommend alternative approaches to complex problems using new technology.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent with 10+ years of experience.
• Experience with OOP languages such as C++, Java, or similar.
• Experience with web servers like Tomcat, Apache, Jetty, and Kubernetes framework.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Expertise in software development principles, including design patterns and continuous integration.
• Experience debugging multi-threaded high scale web applications.
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Experience with web technologies including Node, HTTP, JSON, DNS, and TCP/IP.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience developing mail applications.
• Experience working in Unix/Linux environments.
• Experience with mobile web/app development.
• Familiarity with SCRUM or similar agile development methodology.