Director of Engineering - Yahoo Mail, Android

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 is a global technology and media company that connects people to their passions. We reach over a billion people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love, from mail, finance and sports, to shopping, news and entertainment, with trusted products, communication, content and tech that fuel their day.

A little about US

The client experiences team develops products for Yahoo Mail on Android, iOS, and Web used by over 200 million users across 40 countries and 70 languages. Yahoo Mail continues to be one of the largest and most recognizable email services in the world. Delivering over 4.5B emails daily, and with consistently top-rated mobile apps, Yahoo Mail is a critical pillar in the company’s long-term growth strategy. 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

• Engage, attract, and retain top talent

• Set vision and roadmap for the team, provide leadership to the team in a fast-paced environment

• Drive culture of innovation, excellence, best practices  and customer obsession

• Coordinate and collaborate with partners on business and product strategy

• Understand current technology trends and lead technical reviews

• Set clear expectations and goals for the team, and measure the impact against goals

Qualifications

• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related major with 10+ years of hands-on experience in delivering large-scale mobile or web applications, 5+ years of team management experience

• Experience in building mobile and/or web applications

• Strong programming experience in Kotlin, Java, C++ or other similar language

• Strong technical knowledge of Android mobile application development with a solid understanding of the framework components and their life cycles

• Understanding of large scale mobile applications (clustering, scalability, caching, performance tuning)

• Experience with web technologies such as TypeScript, NodeJs, HTML5, CSS3 and object-oriented Javascript

• 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 Unix/Linux environment, HTTP, Web services, and Restful APIs

• Strong organizational and project management skills

• Ability to manage and work with diverse groups of people, geographically dispersed across the world

• Good communicator, enjoys helping people, remains friendly and constructive under stress

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing mail application

• Experience developing mobile applications, frameworks and/or SDK solutions for Identity, Privacy, Payments and/or Analytics

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.

At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion (www.yahooinc.com/diversity/) page to learn more.

The compensation for this position ranges from $160,965.00 - $349,885.00/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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