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Senior Backend Engineer, Yahoo Mail - Calendar

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!

As a global email provider, Yahoo Mail is the ultimate Consumer Inbox with over 200 million users. It is the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. We create technology that changes the internet while handling billions of inbound connections per day to manage trillions of messages and events requiring petabytes of efficient storage.

A Little About US

The calendar engineering team develops solutions powering our mail brands, including a next-generation infrastructure that we are 100% moving to a native public cloud architecture. The calendar team is responsible for creating the next-generation calendar and notepad experience, along with the supporting infrastructure, to help users effortlessly manage their daily lives.

A Lot About YOU

Are you a passionate backend developer eager to elevate your skills and build world-class services using a modern tech stack and robust cloud infrastructure We're looking for a highly motivated individual to join our team and become instrumental in designing and implementing the next-generation calendar infrastructure and services that power millions of users. In this role, you will drive the architecture and delivery of high-performance, mission-critical services that power user-facing experiences for millions. You will leverage a complete Java stack to build scalable, reliable, and elegant solutions.

Responsibilities

Architectural Leadership & Implementation: Architect and implement innovative features and high-performance REST web services. Drive technical decisions and provide leadership on high-impact projects, ensuring elegant architecture and thoughtful design.
Mission-Critical Service Development: Develop and enhance core, mission-critical services, including those utilizing protocols like CalDAV, caching mechanisms, and large-scale data processing, handling hundreds of billions of transactions daily.
Product Delivery & Code Quality: Lead the design, implementation, testing, and debugging of features. Ensure the delivery of high-quality, reliable, and testable code through continuous deployment and rigorous code reviews for peers.
Team & Technical Influence: Lead, influence, and coach a distributed team of engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning. Share knowledge and mentor team members, and recommend alternative technical approaches to complex problems, leveraging new technology to achieve ambitious goals.
Complex Problem Solving: Take ownership of significant application features, tackling hard engineering and user experience problems to deliver elegant and seamless solutions that directly impact millions of users.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with product managers and other engineers to define requirements, explore solutions, and deliver new features, enhancements, platform improvements, and bug fixes.

Qualifications

BE in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
2+ years of experience leading teams by designing, building scalable high-performing distributed systems
Experience in OOP, Java preferred, and experience in API development (REST/GraphQL), SQL and NoSql databases.
Experience with web servers like Tomcat/Apache/Jetty, Kubernetes framework, TestNG framework
Experience in cloud native application development and architecture preferably in GCP or AWS
Strong understanding of the fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms, OS and Networking
Proven expertise in software development, covering key areas such as design patterns, code structure, continuous integration, and deployment architecture.
Outstanding written and verbal communication abilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with AI Code Assist Tools like Cursor/ClaudeCode
Experience developing Mail application, unix environments
Experience with SCRUM or similar agile development methodology
Experience with mobile web/app 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. 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.

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