Senior iOS Engineer, Yahoo Mail

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 media and technology company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M 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 Yahoo Mail team develops products 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. 

About the role

Yahoo Mail is seeking an innovative and results-driven Senior iOS Engineer to technically lead our commerce utilities and affiliate revenue efforts. This role will focus on enhancing user value through commerce initiatives, and creating exceptional experiences for brands. The ideal candidate will have a passion for driving user engagement and revenue growth. Experience in e-commerce will be a plus.

Responsibilities: 

• Build and deliver high quality and high performance features for our users on Yahoo Mail iOS Mobile App

• Drive technical excellence and implementation of best engineering practices

• Provide technical leadership to engineers in a fast-paced environment

• Enforce design reviews, code reviews, continuous integration and test driven development

• Collaborating with user experience designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver new features, enhancements, platform improvements and bug fixes

• Collaborate with other engineers to write testable, reliable code, continuously deploying to production systems

• Growing in a culture of learning through design discussions and code reviews

• Analyze and optimize application/platform code and/or APIs for efficiency and performance

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 6+ year’s experience

• Strong OO programming experience:  Swift, Objective-C, C++, Java or similar

• Strong foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design

• Excellent technical knowledge of iOS mobile application development with a solid understanding of the framework components and their life cycles. 

• Experience in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture

• Experience with mobile test driven development using XCUITest, Appium, Kiwi or similar technologies

• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in leading app user growth initiatives

• Shipped an app to the Apple Play store

• Experience with developing Mobile applications frameworks and/or SDK solutions for Identity, Payments, Analytics

• Experience with Web Technologies (NodeJs, JSON, TypeScript, HTML5 and CSS3)

• Experience with SCRUM or similar agile development methodology

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, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for all employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit an accommodation request or call 408-336-1409. 

For more information or to search all of our openings please visit https://www.yahooinc.com/careers/ 

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.

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 $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/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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