Princ Software Apps Engineer - Web, 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 YAHOO! Yahoo, with a strong foundation of 900 million users monthly, is in the midst of a renaissance; backed by substantial investment to drive meaningful, long-term growth, led by great products. Are you up for the challenge of writing a chapter on one of the biggest consumer product success stories in history? This won't be easy, but if you're motivated by huge opportunities, backed by an organization that is ready to invest in bold initiatives, and can't wait to start building, Yahoo is the place for you. A little about US Yahoo is composed of organizations, each led by a GM, driving key product lines. This role is within the Yahoo Mail group, which includes its flagship product, Yahoo Mail. You will be starting on offense; the product line (4.5+ star apps & responsive web experiences), business, and tech (modern front-end stacks with significant backend re-architecture just beginning) provide a healthy start, with lots of upside to realize. Now, we need you to be a key part of our next chapter - embarking on the mission to create the best consumer-focused platform for running the "business of life," in email and beyond. You will join a team of engineers who strive to deliver our users best consumer mail experience and are willing to meticulously refine the details to achieve this goal. A lot about YOU You are passionate about growing your skills and value high quality application development on modern tech stack and cloud. 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 8 to 10+ 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 Javascript 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 Experience with Scrum, Squad or similar agile development methodology Experience with AI, ML and GenAI Preferred Qualifications: Experience developing mail application Experience working with TypeScript Experience with mobile web development 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. 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. 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