Principal Backend Engineer - Yahoo Calendar

Principal Backend Engineer – Yahoo Calendar

BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 10+ year’s experience
Experience with OOP: C++, Java, or similar
Experience with web servers like Tomcat/Apache/Jetty, Kubernetes framework, TestNG framework
Strong foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
Expert in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture
Experience with debugging multi-threaded high scale web applications
Experience with scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, Python, and/or Ruby
Experience with Web Technologies (Node, HTTP, JSON, DNS, TCP/IP)
Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

Responsible for the definition, design, development and timely completion of major new features in current and future products
Performing code reviews for your peers where you will be learning from and contributing to a collaborative working model
Tackling hard engineering and user experience problems and solving them in an elegant and seamless manner.
Taking ownership of features and areas of the application that will impact millions of users.
Working with engineering team members to explore and create interesting solutions while sharing knowledge amongst the team.
Collaborating with product managers, and other engineers to deliver new features, enhancements, platform improvements and bug fixes
Collaborate with other engineers to write testable, reliable code, continuously deploying to production systems
Growing in a culture of learning through design discussions and code reviews
Own, deploy, monitor and operate large scale production systems distributed across the globe.
Recommend alternative approaches to solving complex problems and use new technology to achieve goals