Senior Backend Software Dev Engineer, 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

The Xobni platform is the Contacts and Contact-based Relationship and Recommendation platform for Yahoo Mail. We are a large scale distributed platform that serves hundreds of millions of users serving billions of requests everyday with low latency and high reliability.

Our platform requires extreme reliability, resilience, and performance. We are tackling some of the toughest challenges in architecture design, algorithm development, and data engineering. There are innumerable opportunities to innovate in all these areas.

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox. It is 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. 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.

A Lot About You

Responsibilities:

• Working on projects of diverse scope and complexity, design, build, implement, modify, test, debug and deploy software systems, large-scale infrastructure platforms and network services
• Responsible for performance, reliability, availability, scalability and security.
• Collect requirements for product features from product team. come up with design specifications for the features and conduct formal and informal design reviews with the team.
• Implement final design with low latency and stand alone technologies including tests.
• Launch it for bucket (A/Bl testing for small percentage of the users and once the experiment is successful launch it widely for all our users.

Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field with a strong understanding of the fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms, OS, and Networking
• 5+ years experience in software development with Java and/or C++
• 3+ years experience in owning and designing components of large-scale systems
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills and taking initiatives