Senior Software Engineer - Web, Yahoo Mail

Posted 12 Days Ago
United States of America
128K-267K Annually
Senior level
AdTech • Digital Media • Information Technology • Other
The Role
The Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo Mail will lead technical projects, enforce coding standards, and develop high-performance web features using a modern tech stack. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, participating in design reviews, collaborating with product teams, optimizing application performance, and operating large-scale production systems. The role emphasizes high code quality, continuous integration, and staying current with technology trends.
Summary Generated by Built In

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It’s the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.

We are seeking a senior software engineer who is passionate about growing their skills and value high quality application development on modern tech stack and cloud. As the Senior Software Engineer on Yahoo Mail (Web), you will enjoy building the next generation of communication products, web and mobile platforms. You are interested in how best to drive tasks to completion, collaborate to achieve your goals, think through scenarios and edge cases, learn from your leadership, and understand the broader impact of your work. 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: 

  • Provide technical leadership to engineers in fast-paced environment

  • Enforce design reviews, code reviews, continuous integration and test driven development

  • Drive technical excellence and implementation of best engineering practices

  • Lead hands-on implementation work to keep current with technology trends inside and outside Yahoo

  • Build and deliver high quality and high performance features for our users on Web (Node.js/ReactJs).

  • 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

  • Growing in a culture of learning through design discussions and code reviews

  • Deploy, monitor and operate large scale production systems distributed across the globe. 

  • Analyze and optimize application/platform code and/or APIs for efficiency and performance

Qualifications:

  • BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 6+ year’s experience

  • Strong foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design

  • Strong command of responsive design and javascript frameworks such as React / Angular / Ember and Node.js

  • Strong command of browser-side client technologies including AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript and object-oriented Javascrip

  • Experience in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture

  • Experience with Web Technologies (Webpack, Superagent, Babel, Web Vitals, Redux Toolkit, Atomic CSS, Storybook, JSON and REST APIs)

  • Experience with test driven development, unit test / UI test frameworks such as Jest / Selenium / WebdriverIO / React Testing Library / Mock Service Worker / Playwright is an added advantage

  • Ability to work well with diverse groups of people, geographically dispersed across the world

  • Good communicator, enjoys helping people, remains friendly and constructive under stress

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience developing mail application

  • Experience with AI, ML and GenAI

  • Experience with mobile web development

  • Experience with Scrum, Squad or similar agile development methodology

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome. Check out our diversity and inclusion (www.yahooinc.com/diversity/) page to learn more.

The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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

Top Skills

JavaScript
Node.js
React
The Company
HQ: Sunnyvale, CA
10,001 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900 million people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news—with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.

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