Software Web Engineer, Yahoo Mail

The Yahoo Mail Web Engineering team builds and maintains one of the largest web applications in the world, serving hundreds of millions of active users daily. We are dedicated to delivering fast, accessible, and intuitive inbox experiences at global scale. Operating at the cutting edge of modern web technologies and AI-augmented engineering workflows, our team values technical excellence, continuous learning, high impact, and collaborative innovation. Responsibilities

• Feature Leadership & Delivery: Define, design, develop, and ship high-impact features for Yahoo Mail web products, owning deliverables end-to-end from technical architecture through production monitoring.
• AI-First Workflow Orchestration: Leverage AI-assisted tools (Cursor, Claude Code) to accelerate web application implementation and refactoring while maintaining strict architectural integrity, code quality, and security standards.
• Lifecycle Optimization: Identify and implement AI-driven efficiencies across the software development lifecycle, replacing manual boilerplate code and repetitive tasks with automated, AI-validated workflows.
• Technical Judgment & Oversight: Balance AI-generated code outputs with rigorous manual review, ensuring correctness, security vulnerability prevention, and adherence to performance and accessibility (a11y) standards.
• High-Scale Impact: Take end-to-end technical ownership of key Yahoo Mail web components, solving complex engineering and user experience challenges at massive scale.
• Quality & Collaboration: Perform thorough, constructive code reviews and collaborate closely with product managers, UX designers, and cross-functional partners to deliver platform improvements and critical fixes.
• Operational Excellence: Write clean, testable code and actively deploy, monitor, and maintain large-scale production web systems distributed across global infrastructure.
• Mentorship & Innovation: Mentor engineers across the squad to elevate technical standards, scale AI-assisted development best practices, and evaluate emerging tooling to keep the team at the technical forefront., Artificial Intelligence * Big Data * Healthtech * Information Technology * Machine Learning * Software * Analytics Leads complex cybersecurity due diligence programs across mergers, acquisitions, and integrations. Coordinates architects, engineers, legal teams, and business leaders; translates technical findings into executive recommendations; develops governance structures, dashboards, KPIs, and status reporting; facilitates risk decisions; and improves assessment processes. The role requires extensive technical program leadership, cybersecurity knowledge, risk management, executive communication, and advanced visual storytelling skills. Top Skills: Architecture DiagramsCis ControlsCloud SecurityCloud TechnologiesCybersecurityDashboardsData ProtectionData VisualizationEndpoint SecurityEnterprise It InfrastructureIdentity And Access ManagementIso 27001Network SecurityNist 800-53Nist CsfProcess MappingSecurity OperationsSoc 2Vulnerability Management

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• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering (or equivalent experience) with 6+ years of professional software engineering experience on high-scale web applications.
• Strong fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms, Software Architecture, and Web Performance Optimization.
• Deep technical command of modern web frameworks (React, Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript) and modern styling methodologies (Atomic CSS, CSS3).
• Solid hands-on experience with modern front-end build and testing tools (Webpack, Redux Toolkit, Storybook, Jest, Playwright, React Testing Library).
• Hands-on proficiency with AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude Code) integrated into daily software design, development, and debugging workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to write structured prompts, evaluate AI-generated outputs, and iterate on AI suggestions to produce robust, secure production code.
• Active commitment to validating AI-assisted code to prevent security vulnerabilities, hallucinations, edge-case failures, and performance regressions.
• Strong track record of shipping and operating scalable customer-facing web features in a CI/CD environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a collaborative, growth-oriented mindset., * Experience developing high-traffic email, messaging, productivity, or calendar web applications.
• Experience building customer-facing product features powered by LLMs, GenAI APIs, or machine learning pipelines.
• Experience using multiagent workflows.
• Experience in Unix/Linux operating environments and shell scripting.
• Familiarity with mobile web development and responsive web design patterns.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum or Squad-based engineering structures.
• Familiarity with enterprise observability tools (Splunk, Grafana) and client-side performance monitoring.
• Practical exposure to accessibility (a11y) standards (WCAG) and internationalization (i18n) for global applications.

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

Leads end-to-end development of high-scale Yahoo Mail web features, from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and maintenance. Uses AI-assisted development tools while validating code for security, performance, accessibility, and correctness. Collaborates with product and UX teams, conducts code reviews, mentors engineers, and improves software lifecycle efficiency through automated workflows. The summary above was generated by AI 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., The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more., 40 Minutes Ago In-Office or Remote 118K-118K Annually Junior 118K-118K Annually Junior Information Technology * Mobile * Social Impact * Software Develop and improve Dimagi’s CommCare platform through full-stack software engineering. Responsibilities include building features, writing automated tests, participating in code reviews and agile processes, supporting continuous integration and deployments, and collaborating with international development and implementation teams. The role focuses on creating accessible software for frontline workers in challenging environments and may include data engineering and AI-assisted coding work. Top Skills: Alpine.JsBootstrapClaude CodeCommcareCSSDjangoElasticsearchHTMLHtmxJavaScriptPostgresPython Headway, 2 Hours Ago In-Office or Remote 180K-225K Annually Senior level 180K-225K Annually Senior level Consumer Web * Healthtech * Professional Services * Social Impact * Software Lead and scale technical recruiting across Engineering, Data, Product, Design, Security, and IT. Build and manage a high-performing team of senior recruiters and managers, set strategy and operating model, partner with R&D leaders on headcount planning, improve systems and tooling, and drive operational excellence and talent-branding to deliver high-impact hiring outcomes. Optum