Senior Android Apps Engineer - Yahoo Mail

Yahoo is a leading consumer-focused organization with a strong user base, currently seeking a Senior Android Apps Engineer for its Yahoo Mail group. The role involves providing technical leadership, developing high-quality features for the Android mobile app, and collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance user experience and functionality.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership to engineers in fast-paced environment
• Enforce design reviews, code reviews, continuous integration and testing infrastructure
• Drive technical excellence and implementation of best engineering practices
• Lead hands-on implementation work to keep current with technology trends inside and outside Yahoo
• Build and deliver high quality and high performance features for our users on Android mobile app
• Collaborate 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 and reliable code, continuously deploying to production systems
• Growing in a culture of learning through design discussions and code reviews
• Deploy, monitor and operate large scale production systems distributed across the globe
• Analyze and optimize application/platform code and/or APIs for efficiency and performance

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 6+ years of experience
• Strong object oriented programming experience: Kotlin, Java or similar
• Strong foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
• Excellent technical knowledge of Android 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 Espresso, Roboelectric, Appium or similar technologies
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Experience developing mobile applications frameworks and/or SDK solutions for Identity, Payments, Analytics
• Experience working with JetPack Compose
• Experience with AI, ML and GenAI
• Experience with web technologies (NodeJs, JSON, TypeScript, HTML5 and CSS3)
• Shipped an app to the Google Play Store
• Experience with Scrum or similar agile development methodology