Software Engineer II, Yahoo Mail

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.

A Little About Us: 

We build, enhance, and maintain one of the highest scaling email platforms on the planet. We are the first component in the mail back end, a middle tier, that contains the APIs and business logic through which virtually all mail operations flow. We implement REST APIs for our world-class mail clients (mobile, web, Yahoo, etc), standards-based protocols (IMAP, POP, etc) for generic mail clients, and industry leading back-end mail synchronization. We impact approximately 300 Million users every month, serving billions of requests a day across servers across the world, and are critical to Yahoo’s success. We do this on highly scalable applications in private and public clouds, that we are in the process of transforming to 100% native cloud.

Come join this amazing team of Engineers, Product Managers and Designers to work on next generation innovative experiences transforming how users connect with each other every day! 

Responsibilities: 

• Design, implement, test, and debug features in mail supporting client features; revise and refine as required.

• Request and participate in code reviews.

• Participate in agile development with weekly sprints, planning & estimating work, daily standup, & retrospectives.

• Learn from a multitude of sources, including on the job project experience, reviewing code from others, team education sessions, collaborating with peers, frequently soliciting advice & shoulder reviews from leaders & architects, as well as online or class-based learning.

• Implementation and development of AI solutions to enhance system reliability and developer productivity.

• Take initiative to identify, solve, and pursue problems you discover to full completion.

• Use modern AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) to accelerate development tasks such as code generation, refactoring, debugging, and documentation.

• Contribute to improving team-wide workflows involving AI-assisted engineering and work culture of our team.

• Promote and solicit ideas within project teams.

A Lot About You: 

You enjoy solving problems within a collaborative team. You have an interest in the full life-cycle of a product - designing, coding, testing, reviewing, launching, and troubleshooting. You will have the opportunity to participate in projects with significant impact on the success of Yahoo.

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field with strong understanding of the fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms, OS and Networking

• Significant professional experience in Software Development

• Proficiency in OOP. Experience in Java or C++ highly desired

• 2+ Years Experience

• Familiar with designing and developing high performing, and complex server applications

• Experience in implementing and operating highly scalable and available services in public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure etc).

• Proficient in using AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot etc) to accelerate development, generate tests, and refactor code, while understanding their limitations and security implications

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

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.