Director of Engineering - Developer Experience and Tools

Yahoo Mail is seeking a Director of Engineering for Developer Experience and Tools. This role involves leading a team to develop AI-powered tools, frameworks, and services that enhance developer productivity, quality, and velocity across web, mobile, and generative interfaces. The leader will define strategy, track metrics, and foster a high-performance culture, empowering engineers to build high-quality products at scale.

Must Have

• Lead vision, strategy, and execution for developer experience across web, mobile, and generative interfaces.
• Build a high-performing team focused on improving developer experience.
• Build tools that improve engineer productivity by 10x using code assistance, automated reviews, and context-aware documentation.
• Contribute to engineering efforts from planning and organization to execution and delivery to solve complex engineering problems.
• Define and track productivity metrics to encourage engineering efficiency and a high-performance culture.
• Work collaboratively to design, implement and evolve high quality automation frameworks for functional and non-functional testing.
• Develop tools or implement features in existing tools for shortening the development cycle.
• Work with team members on detailed and constructive design and code reviews.
• Collaborate with the broader engineering team on design or architectural decisions.
• Be a role model for showcasing best practices, processes and culture.
• Make every engineer’s day-to-day productive and enjoyable!
• Define engineering tooling roadmap.
• 15+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of leading complex, high-impact projects.
• Demonstrated expertise in crafting and developing scalable, secure, and innovative software solutions.
• Demonstrated use of AI for coding, designing, planning and execution.
• Strong business insight, combining technical and business viewpoints to achieve strategic results.
• Excellent leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior leaders.
• Extensive experience in building Developer productivity tools, metrics and dashboards.
• Experience-driven empathy for the tools, frustrations, and processes that slow engineering teams down.
• Building AI based applications/workflows using LLMs with concepts like RAG and Agentic AI development.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, including quickly getting up to speed with new technologies.

Good to Have

• Building, maintaining and supporting infrastructure.

Perks & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work options
• Healthcare
• 401k
• Backup childcare
• Education stipends
• Discretionary annual bonus or commissions

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.

Job description:

Yahoo Mail has an exciting opportunity to lead, build and deploy our Developer Experience and Tools team. In this role, you'll be responsible for developing tools, frameworks and services which will enable developers to build a high quality product at scale without compromising on quality, velocity, and coding standards.

We are looking for a people leader who is passionate about empowering developers with AI tools that will innovate the developer experience at Yahoo Mail! The Developer Experience and Tooling team (DET) enables the engineering organization with AI powered solutions and tools that reach all aspects of the development lifecycle.

As a DET leader, you like building developer workflow tools and work toward making overall development better. You excel in leading others and derive joy from mentoring and growing other engineers. You set a high bar for the technical design and code quality of your team. You demonstrate exceptional ownership of not only the area of your team, but across Slack’s entire codebase. You have a “can do” demeanor and nothing is beneath you or outside your responsibilities because you do what it takes to deliver the highest quality code and the most impactful features. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things, adeptly navigate ambiguity, and treat failure as an opportunity for learning.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution for the developer experience across web, mobile, and generative interfaces and the right tools to support the same
• Build a high performing team focussed on improving developer experience and Build tools that improve engineer productivity by 10× using code assistance, automated reviews, and context-aware documentation.
• Contribute to engineering efforts from planning and organization to execution and delivery to solve complex engineering problems in the area of Developer productivity apps and Developer workflows.
• Define and Tracking productivity metrics to encourage engineering efficiency and a high-performance culture.
• Analyze metrics at both team and individual level: velocity, refactoring frequency, bug resolution times—through reporting dashboards
• Work collaboratively to design, implement and evolve high quality automation frameworks for functional and non-functional testing and design of visualization and reporting dashboards for monitoring and enabling data based decisions
• Develop tools or implement features in existing tools for shortening the development cycle
• Work with team members on detailed and constructive design and code reviews
• Collaborate with the broader engineering team on design or architectural decisions
• Be a role model for showcasing best practices, processes and culture to help Engineering teams improve their productivity
• Make every engineer’s day-to-day productive and enjoyable!
• Define engineering tooling roadmap

Qualifications:

• 15+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of leading complex, high-impact projects
• Demonstrated expertise in crafting and developing scalable, secure, and innovative software solutions
• Demonstrated use of AI for coding, designing, planning and execution
• Strong business insight, combining technical and business viewpoints to achieve strategic results
• A growth mindset: curiosity, humility, and drive to explore how AI can reshape software development.
• Excellent leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior leaders
• Have extensive experience in building Developer productivity tools, metrics and dashboards.
• Have experience-driven empathy for the tools, frustrations, and processes that slow engineering teams down and lead to toil or burnout.
• Building AI based applications/workflows using LLMs with concepts like RAG and Agentic AI development.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, including quickly getting up to speed with new technologies.
• Experience that is a plus:
• Building, maintaining and supporting infrastructure.

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!

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The compensation for this position ranges from $160,965.00 - $349,885.00/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. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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