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Yahoo Holdingsposted 3 months ago
$299,000 - $299,000/Yr
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
- Responsible for the definition, design, development and timely completion of major new features in current and future products
- Performing code reviews for peers to foster a collaborative working model
- Tackling engineering and user experience problems and solving them elegantly
- Taking ownership of features impacting millions of users
- Collaborating with product managers and engineers to deliver new features and enhancements
- Writing testable, reliable code and continuously deploying to production systems
- Owning, deploying, monitoring, and operating large scale production systems globally
- Recommending alternative approaches to complex problems using new technology
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 10+ years of experience
- Experience with OOP: C++, Java, or similar
- Experience with web servers like Tomcat/Apache/Jetty, Kubernetes framework, TestNG framework
- Strong foundation in Computer Science, with competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- Expert in software development principles, including design patterns and continuous integration
- 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
Nice-to-haves
- Experience developing mail applications
- Experience working in Unix/Linux environments
- Experience with mobile web/app development
- Experience with SCRUM or similar agile development methodology
