Sr Software Engineer - Backend

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world. Want in?

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain features in our complex, low latency, performance oriented and highly scalable backend ad serving systems

• Write and test high quality code using Java and related technologies, eg. Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Junit, etc

• Potentially lead a team of engineers.

• Work with a cross-functional and geographically distributed team of engineers

• Analyze and optimize code to ensure the DSP performs within our customer's SLA requirements.

• Analyze business and technical requirements and design solutions that meet those needs.

• Troubleshoot production issues related to the team’s applications.

• Effectively manages day-to-day tasks in an Agile process to meet scheduled commitments.

• Write unit tests and specification documents

• Review and provide feedback on other’s code submissions.

• Mentor junior engineers.

• Collaborate across teams including production engineers, architects and subject matter experts to deliver high quality results.

Requirements:

• BTech/MTech in Computer Science or a related field from a leading university

• 7+ years of experience designing and programming Java based applications.

• Excellent communication skills

• Familiar with concepts and popular tools for dev ops 

• Experience using Git

• Familiar with software design methods and techniques.

• Experience with developing complex, low latency, performance oriented and highly scalable backend applications.

• ​​Ability to design the classes to store hierarchical relation data and traverse through it.

• Ability to think about all test cases and validate the solution on those.

• Experience with databases, MySQL

• Excellent problem-solving skills.

• Must have an expert understanding of object oriented programming.

• Experience with continuous integration and large scale automated deployment (CI/CD)

• Familiarity with Internet protocols such as HTTP and SSL

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 (

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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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