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

• 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