Senior Android Engineer, Yahoo! Fantasy Sports

Yahoo is one of the internet’s leading destinations for comprehensive sports news and innovative fantasy games. They are seeking a Senior Android Engineer to shape and guide application design, collaborate with developers and designers, and build high-quality Android applications for their fantasy sports products.

Responsibilities:

• Shape and guide application design as the team's architect
• Collaborate with other developers and designers to help define, build, and deliver new features in our Sports mobile apps
• Code -- you will spend much of your time building Android apps, efficiently coding in Java / Kotlin. This includes new feature development, architecture, writing unit tests, refactors, and bug/crash fixes
• Share responsibilities like app architecture/design reviews, code reviews, performance tuning, and build pipeline management
• Own and deliver -- from executing difficult refactors to planning complex projects with many moving parts
• Mentor junior developers to help them understand our best practices
• Share your opinions and help shape our technical direction, best practices, product ideas, and team processes. We value and depend on your input!

Requirements:

• Solid coding chops, code design skills, and practitioner of mobile development best practices -- including object-oriented design principles; design pattern usage; writing modular, reusable, testable code; data structures; concurrency; performance profiling and tuning
• Expertise in Java, Kotlin, Android Studio, Gradle, git, etc. -- the skills and tools needed to build Android apps
• Expertise in various Android App architectures - MVP, MVVM, MVI
• Up-to date on the Android best practices such as Live Data, Jet Pack Compose, Coroutines, Flows
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills
• Enjoys mentoring more junior developers
• The quintessential teammate -- great communicator, adaptable, supportive, hard working, and enjoys a good laugh
• MS in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent CS training
• Experience as a Senior Engineer or higher in a technical setting
• Strong Technical Presentation skills to get buy-in from other developers and spread your technical innovations Yahoo wide
• Being a sports fan is a big plus!
• Experience in using AI to develop code and solve problems is also a huge plus!