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Sr. Technical Yahoo, Front End Engineer, Mail
Yahoo!
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
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Yahoo makes the world’s daily habits inspiring and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. Yahoo’s businesses span across Search, Communications, Media and many other verticals
A Little About Us
Think about impacting 1 out of every 2 people online--in innovative and imaginative ways that are uniquely Yahoo. We do just that each and every day, and you could too. After all, it's big thinkers like you who will create the next generation of Internet experiences for consumers and advertisers across the globe. Now's the time to show the world what you've got. Put your ideas to work for over half a billion people.
A Lot About You
Senior Software Engineer, Yahoo Mail front end team. Hundreds of millions of people around the world rely on our product to keep in touch with the people and things they care most about. Now we need your help making Yahoo Mail the fastest, easiest, and most attractive place for communicating with your friends and family. This is a senior application development position; only true ninjas need apply. We're a killer team creating one of the most sophisticated client side web applications in the world, and we're constantly pushing the limits of code complexity, user experience fluidity, and raw performance. We're making browsers do things for hundreds of millions of users that Berners-Lee never dreamed of, and we need your help, especially if you're passionate about communication, social software, and photos.
Your Day
• Significant engineering ownership in a complex client side application
• Create new feature work
• Improvements on existing code, debugging and investigation of user issues
• Active participation in designing and shipping the product
You Must Have
• Master's or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• At least 7 years experience with OOP: C++, Java, C#, or similar (If you're a recent grad, but you're a rock star, we want to talk to you also.).
• Being a strong engineer is more important than your specific area of expertise.
• Be flexible and enjoy both front-end and back-end coding
• You must understand cross browser issues with Firefox and IE. Other browsers are a plus.
• Experience with scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, Python, and/or Ruby
• You must enjoy challenging engineering problems. We are looking for someone who can solve complex issues.
• Be flexible and able to work with a diverse team that includes engineers, marketing, product designers, and so on.
Preferable Job Qualifications
• Experience developing mail applications
• Experience with HTTP, SOAP, XMLHTTP, XML, SSL, REST, and Apache
• Experience designing large scale web applications
• Experience on browser-side client technologies including AJAX, HTML, CSS, and object-oriented Javascript
• Experience of working with YUI, backbone, jQuery and node.js
• Familiar with SCRUM or similar agile methodology