Senior Backend Engineer

Yahoo Sports connects fans to the sports and fantasy games they love most, providing personalized quality content and superior fan experiences every day.

Fantasy BE PHP Senior Engineer

A Little About Us:
We are sports fans. We love our teams, our code, products and users. We are also committed to improving ourselves and are looking for someone who shares our values (honesty, integrity, collaboration) to join our team and make us even better. Working in Yahoo Sports is an adventure in delivering first class experiences across multiple devices at scale for an avid fan base you won’t find anywhere else on the planet. 

Responsibilities:

• New feature development for our season long and casual fantasy games in an Agile environment

• Maintain game operations (e.g. seasonal launches)

• Build APIs to support our mobile and web clients

• Improve the code base and maintain engineering excellence

• Interact cross functionally with Product and Design teams to plan and execute on fantasy projects

• Architect infrastructure solutions to complex problems for new development

Requirements: 

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent certification

• Technical Experience:

  • Working knowledge of Linux/UNIX

  • OOP and software design in PHP

  • Strong skills writing unit and functional tests

• 5+ years of experience

Nice to Have:

• Building and/or using RESTful APIs

• Web servers like jetty or undertow

• Familiarity with cloud services like AWS

• Experience with MySQL or similar query languages

• Track record of proactively establishing and following through on commitments

• Passion for sports and for delivering products that users simply cannot live without

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 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 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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The compensation for this position ranges from $120,750.00 - $251,250.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

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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