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 US
The 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 YOU
You 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 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 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 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 10+ year’s 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 strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
Expert in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture
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
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience developing mail application
Experience working in Unix/Linux environments
Experience with mobile web/app development
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, 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 visit
https://www.yahooinc.com/careers/
Important notes for your attention
Applications:
All applicants must apply for Yahoo openings direct with Yahoo. We do not authorize any external agencies in India to handle candidates’ applications. No agency nor individual may charge candidates for any efforts they make on an applicant’s behalf in the hiring process.
Our internal recruiters will reach out to you directly to discuss the next steps if we determine that the role is a good fit for you. Selected candidates will go through formal interviews and assessments arranged by Yahoo direct.
Offer Distributions:
Our electronic offer letter and documents will be issued through our system for e-signatures, not via individual emails.
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.
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.
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