Principal Software App Engineer, Yahoo Mail

A little about YAHOO!

Yahoo, with a strong foundation of 900 million users monthly, is in the midst of a renaissance; backed by substantial investment to drive meaningful, long-term growth, led by great products. Are you up for the challenge of writing a chapter on one of the biggest consumer product success stories in history? This won’t be easy, but if you’re motivated by huge opportunities, backed by an organization that is ready to invest in bold initiatives, and can’t wait to start building, Yahoo is the place for you.

• 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 mobile application that will impact millions of user
• Working with engineering team members to explore and create interesting solutions while sharing knowledge amongst the team
• Collaborating with user experience designers, 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
• Champions the effective and responsible use of AI within the team by establishing best practices and mentoring other engineers to boost their productivity and skills.
• 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

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 8+ year’s experience
• Strong OO programming experience:  Swift, Objective-C, C++, Java or similar
• Strong foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
• Deep technical knowledge of iOS mobile application development with a solid understanding of the framework components and their life cycles.
• Expert in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture
• Experience with mobile test driven development using XCUITest, Espresso, Roboelectric, Appium, Kiwi or similar technologies
• Experience with AI dev tools such as Cursor, Copilot and Claude etc.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

• Experience in leading app user growth initiatives
• Experience with leveraging various AI tools to improve workplace productivity
• Shipped an app to the Apple Play store
• Experience developing Mobile applications frameworks and/or SDK solutions for Identity, Payments, Analytics
• Experience with Web Technologies (NodeJs, JSON, TypeScript, HTML5 and CSS3)
• Experience with SCRUM or similar agile development methodology

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.

Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.