Backend Software Dev Engineer II, Yahoo Mail

About this role

Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It’s the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.


A Little About Yahoo
Yahoo makes the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. Yahoo's businesses span across Search, Communications, Media and many other verticals.Yahoo Mail Backend Team develops and maintains high-performing systems that provide API (Web Services, IMAP, & POP), Metadata and Elastic Storage for the electronic mail and its auxiliary functions. The system handles billions of requests a day, and supports a variety of clients, mobile, desktop, & web. The team works on problems that cover a wide spectrum - from web services to operating system and networking layer.Yahoo Mail teams in Three Words: Your personal database


Responsibilities
You will be coding in Java and/or C++ on Unix platform to help build the next generation backend for Yahoo Mail.This role is in the Communications organization that connects the world through Mail, Messenger, Groups, Calendar, Contacts & Notepad. On this team, you have an amazing opportunity to impact the productivity and connected lives of approximately 300 Million users every month. This amazing team of Engineers, Product Managers and Designers work on next generation innovative experiences transforming how users connect with each other every day.


Sounds Exciting? Then, come join us!
Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) with minimum of 4 years experience
• Specialized in backend development with Java, C++, or similar experience
• Solid understanding of CS fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, obj...