Lead Android Apps Engineer

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. 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.

Principal Apps Engineer for Mobile SDK & Applications
A Little About Us:
We are an industry leading direct to Consumer and Ad tech solution for advertisers and publishers. Our innovative ad tech gives one stop access to Yahoo, inc. trusted data, high quality inventory and demand, creative ad experiences and industry-leading machine learning, at global scale. Consumer Monetization team’s charter is to Find, Evaluate, Build, and Scale new monetization, subscription and internal campaign tools and products, ad formats and functionalities across all Yahoo brands including Yahoo Homepage, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo News and AOL. This team is uniquely positioned to identify growth and revenue generation opportunities, design and implement solutions across consumer products and advertising platforms including video, display, native, and search.

We are a team of Mobile Developers that are laser focused on monetization opportunities in Yahoo Mobile Apps and improving the Ad experience for our 100M plus monthly active users of our Mobile Apps.
A Lot about You
Work with Architects, product leads, designers and App developers (to design , build and integrate innovative Ad formats into popular native apps like Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Fantasy.
Architect, Design, Develop and contribute to Architecture solutions for Ads delivery on Android Mobile SDKs & Yahoo Mobile Apps to achieve business and revenue growth.
Write highly scalable & optimized Kotlin & Java code that is maintainable and testable.
Be able to assess business requirements, translate them to development effort and raise issues proactively whenever scope/deadline is impacted
Respond to high impact production incidents due to SDKs delivered to various Native App customers - internal or external
Interact with consumers of Monetization SDK to understand their requirements, pain points and help them succeed.
Participate in full application lifecycle (ideation, design, develop, test, build and deploy)

Lead Design & PR reviews and setup a cadence for initiatives for improvement of performance and quality
Qualifications
BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Expertise in Mobile Development and deep understanding of Mobile platforms and development tools
Experience in building SDKs/libraries used by mobile app developers
Experienced in API design and developing clean and maintainable code
Experience in automated testing of mobile application SDK code
Prior experience building SDK's and/or Apps for the Android platform, involving integration/building of RestFUL APIs
Ability to mentor and/or coach junior developers
Experience developing in Kotlin/Java
Experience working with a large codebase and large enterprise environments.

Experience working across a large organization and leading cross functional teams to deliver important objectives

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

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 will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. 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 +1.866.772.3182. 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 $143,625.00 - $299,375.00/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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