Principal Software Apps Engineer, iOS, Yahoo Mail

Yahoo is a leading consumer internet company with a strong foundation of 900 million users monthly. They are seeking a Principal Software Apps Engineer for Yahoo Mail, responsible for defining, designing, and developing major new features while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the definition, design, development and timely completion of major new features in current and future products
• Performing code reviews for your peers where you will be learning from and contributing to a collaborative working model
• Tackling hard engineering and user experience problems and solving them in an elegant and seamless manner
• Taking ownership of features and areas of the mobile application that will impact millions of users
• Working with engineering team members to explore and create interesting solutions while sharing knowledge amongst the team
• 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
• Own, deploy, monitor and operate large scale production systems distributed across the globe
• Recommend alternative approaches to solving complex problems and use new technology to achieve goals

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 10+ 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
• Deep technical knowledge of iOS mobile application development with a solid understanding of the framework components and their life cycles
• Expert 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, Espresso, Roboelectric, Appium, Kiwi or similar technologies
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Experience in leading app user growth initiatives
• Experience with AI Tools and GenAI
• Shipped an app to the Apple Play store
• Experience 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