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