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Company

Yahoo · 2 hours ago

Principal Software Apps Engineer, Yahoo Mail

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$144K/yr - $299K/yr

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

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 web application that will impact millions of users.

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

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

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

Qualification

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Computer Science degreeData structuresAlgorithmsSoftware designJavaScript frameworksWeb application developmentResponsive designAJAXHTML5CSS3TypeScriptObject-oriented JavaScriptContinuous integrationDeployment architectureWeb TechnologiesTest driven developmentUnit test frameworksUI test frameworksWeb application performanceDebuggingUnix/Linux environmentsMobile web developmentScrumAgile developmentCommunicator

Required

BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 8+ year’s experience

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

Deep technical knowledge of responsive design and javascript frameworks such as React / Angular / Ember and Node.js

Deep technical knowledge of web application development with strong command of browser-side client technologies including AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript and object-oriented Javascript

Expert 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

Expert knowledge of web application performance, stability and debugging

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

Experience developing mail application

Experience with AI, ML and GenAI

Experience working in Unix/Linux environments

Experience with mobile web development

Experience with Scrum, Squad or similar agile development methodology

Benefits

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Company holidays

Vacation

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Company

Yahoo

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Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Verizon Media.

Founded in 1994

Sunnyvale, California, USA

10,001+ employees