A little about YAHOO!
Yahoo is a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people worldwide, empowering them to achieve their goals online through a portfolio of iconic products. We connect users to what they love — from mail, finance, and sports to shopping, news, and entertainment — through trusted experiences, meaningful content, and technology that power their everyday lives.
About Our Team
Yahoo is made up of several organizations, each led by a GM and focused on driving key product lines. This role sits within the Yahoo Mail group, home to our flagship product, Yahoo Mail. You’ll be joining a team — that has a great product line, with its 4.5+ star app experiences, strong business foundation, and robust technology, is well-positioned in the consumer communication space. Now, we’re entering our next chapter: building the most consumer-focused platform for managing the “business of life,” through email and beyond. You’ll join a team of engineers dedicated to delivering the best consumer mail experience, meticulously refining every detail to make that vision a reality.
A lot about YOU
You’re passionate about growing your skills and building high-quality applications using modern technologies and cloud platforms. You thrive on creating the next generation of communication products across web or mobile. You take pride in driving projects to completion, collaborating effectively, thinking through edge cases, and understanding the broader impact of your work. You enjoy learning from experienced leaders and working with a world-class team that values clean architecture, thoughtful design, and great user experiences—while having fun along the way. If that sounds like you, we’d love to talk.
Responsibilities
Define, design, develop, and deliver major new features for current and future products on schedule.
Participate in and lead code reviews—learning from peers while contributing to a culture of collaboration and technical excellence.
Tackle complex engineering and user experience challenges, delivering elegant, scalable, and user-friendly solutions.
Take ownership of key features and product areas that directly impact millions of users.
Partner with fellow engineers to explore creative solutions, share knowledge, and continuously improve team practices.
Collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver new features, enhancements, platform improvements, and bug fixes.
Write clean, testable, and reliable code, deploying continuously to large-scale production systems.
Contribute to a culture of learning through design discussions, technical reviews, and mentorship.
Deploy, monitor, and operate globally distributed production systems with a focus on reliability and performance.
Evaluate and recommend new technologies or approaches to solve complex problems and improve development efficiency.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience), with 8+ years of professional software development experience.
Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals — including data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
Deep technical knowledge of responsive design and javascript frameworks such as React / NextJS / Angular / Ember and Node.js
Advanced knowledge of responsive web application development, with strong command of HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript, AJAX, and object-oriented JavaScript.
Proven understanding of software design and architecture, including design patterns, code organization, continuous integration, and deployment practices.
Experience with modern web technologies and tools such as Webpack, Babel, Redux Toolkit, Storybook, Atomic CSS, Superagent, Web Vitals, JSON, and REST APIs.
Hands-on experience with test-driven development (TDD) and testing frameworks such as Jest, Selenium, WebdriverIO, React Testing Library, Mock Service Worker, or Playwright (preferred).
Hand on experience in web performance optimization, application stability, and debugging for large-scale web applications.
Excellent collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively with diverse, globally distributed teams.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills; maintains professionalism, empathy, and composure in high-pressure situations.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience developing mail application
Experience with AI, ML and GenAI
Experience working in Unix/Linux environments
Experience with mobile web development
Experience with Scrum, Squad or similar agile development methodology
Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements.
If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.
Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements.
If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.
Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.
Top Skills
Yahoo Dublin, Dublin, IRL Office
The EXO Building, North Wall Quay 1 Ireland , Dublin, Ireland, D01 W5Y2
