Senior Software Engineer, Yahoo Mail

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and debug features in mail supporting client features; revise and refine as required
• Request and participate in code reviews
• Participate in agile development with weekly sprints, planning & estimating work, daily standup, & retrospectives
• Learn from a multitude of sources, including on the job project experience, reviewing code from others, team education sessions, collaborating with peers, frequently soliciting advice & shoulder reviews from leaders & architects, as well as online or class-based learning
• Take initiative to identify, solve, and pursue problems you discover to full completion
• Drive the adoption and development of AI solutions to enhance system reliability and developer productivity.
• Stay current with evolving AI-assisted development tools and help define best practices for AI-assisted development.
• Contribute to best practices and work culture of our team
• Promote and solicit ideas within project teams
• A Lot About You:
• You enjoy solving problems within a collaborative team. You have an interest in the full life-cycle of a product - designing, coding, testing, reviewing, launching, and troubleshooting. You will have the opportunity to participate in projects with significant impact on the success of Yahoo.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field
• Strong understanding of the fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms, OS and Networking
• 6+ years of relevant experience
• 2 years of experience leading teams by designing, building scalable high-performing distributed systems
• Experience in cloud native application development and architecture preferably in AWS or GCP
• Proficiency in using AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot etc) to accelerate development, generate tests, and refactor code, while understanding their limitations and security implications
• Experience in OOP. Java or C++ preferred

Requirements

• REST API (with Jersey and/or Servlets 3.0)
• Multi-threaded programming and/or understanding contention issues
• Large-scale, large user base development
• Web-scale or enterprise-scale development
• Please note that this role follows a hybrid work model, and the office location is Yahoo Bangalore - EGL Office (2 - 3 days/week in office)
• 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 Yaho

Additional Information

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 Us: We build, enhance, and maintain one of the highest-scaling email platforms on the planet - impacting approximately 300 million users every month and serving billions of requests a day across servers around the world. The Core Mail Team encompasses the full breadth of Yahoo Mail's backend. Our Services group owns the middle tier that contains the APIs and business logic through which virtually all mail operations flow - REST APIs for our world-class mail clients (mobile, web, and beyond), standards-based protocols (IMAP, POP) for generic mail clients, industry-leading backend mail synchronization, Calendar, Contacts, and other foundational services in the Yahoo communication suite. We are actively driving significant modernization efforts to re-platform and scale these services for the future. Our Data group builds and operates the data platform that powers it all - the services and infrastructure responsible for storing and serving message metadata, message bodies, and attachments, as well as large-scale data migration and mailbox metadata systems, all on top of GCP (Spanner, GCS, GKE). This team designs and runs highly available distributed systems, maintains production readiness and BCP for multi-region deployments, and evolves schemas and data models at multi-petabyte scale. Together, we are critical to Yahoo's success - running highly scalable applications across private and public clouds that we are actively transforming to 100% native cloud. Our Services and Data groups collaborate closely with each other, Product, Infrastructure teams, and the broader Mail organization to deliver reliable, low-latency experiences for every user. 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!

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