Sr Engineering Manager - Yahoo Contacts

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

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.

Responsibilities:

• Engage, attract, and retain top talent
• Provide project and technical leadership to engineers in a fast-paced environment
• Drive technical excellence and implementation of best engineering practices
• Enforce design review, continuous integration and test driven development
• Coordinate with partner teams when required, help unblock teams and resolve issues across teams
• Lead hands-on implementation work to keep current with technology trends inside and outside Yahoo
• Work closely with product management and development teams to define the next generation of communication products
  
  

Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science with 8+ years of hands-on experience in delivering large-scale backend applications, 2 years of team management experience
• Experience with OOP: C++, Java, C#, or similar
• Experience with web servers like Tomcat/Apache/Jetty, Kubernetes framework, TestNG framework
• Understanding of large scale web applications (clustering, scalability, caching, performance tuning)
• Experience with scripting languages such as Javascript/Node.js, Ruby, PHP, Perl and Python
• Understanding of agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and agile engineering practices like Test-Driven Development, Continuous integration, and other Extreme programming practices
• Proficient in a Unix/Linux environment, HTTP, Web services, and Restful API
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with AI, ML and GenAI
• Experience building web applications on cloud like AWS/GCP
• Experience with SCRUM or similar agile development methodology
  
  

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.

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