Senior Backend Engineer

Yahoo is one of the internet’s leading destinations for comprehensive sports news and innovative fantasy games. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to develop new features for fantasy games, maintain game operations, and build APIs to enhance user experience.

Responsibilities:

• New feature development for our season long and casual fantasy games in an Agile environment
• Maintain game operations (e.g. seasonal launches)
• Build APIs to support our mobile and web clients
• Improve the code base and maintain engineering excellence
• Interact cross functionally with Product and Design teams to plan and execute on fantasy projects
• Architect infrastructure solutions to complex problems for new development

Requirements:

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent certification
• Working knowledge of Linux/UNIX
• OOP and software design in PHP
• Strong skills writing unit and functional tests
• 5+ years of experience
• Building and/or using RESTful APIs
• Web servers like jetty or undertow
• Familiarity with cloud services like AWS
• Experience with MySQL or similar query languages
• Track record of proactively establishing and following through on commitments
• Passion for sports and for delivering products that users simply cannot live without