Sports App - Senior Android Engineer

Yahoo Sports is one of the internet’s leading destinations for comprehensive sports news and innovative fantasy games. We produce insightful content across multiple platforms and curate quality coverage from around the web to inform and entertain fans. We're an original fantasy sports pioneer, with a legacy of innovation that helps us continue to be a fantasy leader. And as one of the most-visited sports platforms on the internet, we're one of the best places for brands to reach fans.

A Little About Us

Yahoo Sports connects fans to the sports and fantasy games they love most. We are passionate about building best-in-class sports apps that deliver real-time, personalized quality content, and a superior experience to millions of sports fans worldwide. At Yahoo Sports, “Fans come first.”

A Lot About You

You are an experienced, motivated engineer who is passionate about mobile app development and building high quality, engaging products. You thrive working as part of a team of smart, talented engineers and product designers who value efficiency, creativity, and a trusted, collaborative work environment. You are curious, driven, and enjoy challenging work.

Responsibilities

• Code in Kotlin -- to help build and evolve our Sports Android App -- with an emphasis on quality, performance, testability, modularity and maintainability

• Collaborate with other engineers and designers to help define, build and deliver new features, and further modernize our codebase

• Demonstrate engineering leadership and expertise through technical and architecture design guidance, code reviews, embodying coding best practices, performance optimizing, build pipeline and automation support, mentoring

• Own and deliver -- from the small must-do tasks, to large, complex projects with many moving parts – this includes leading projects and development initiatives

• Share your opinions on, and help drive, our technical direction, best practices, product designs/ideas, team processes, peer feedback - we value, and depend on, your input!

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong coding chops, code design skills and expertise in software development best practices -- including mobile app development; object-oriented design; writing modular, reusable, testable code; writing unit tests; data structures; design patterns; concurrency; performance profiling and tuning

• 6+ years of experience in building and shipping native, production Android apps

• Proficiency in Kotlin, Android Studio, Android Platform Tools, Jetpack, Java, git, etc – all of the skills, tools, libraries and languages needed to build and support Android apps

• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills

• The quintessential teammate – high EQ, great communicator, adaptable, supportive, hard working and enjoys a good laugh

• BS in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent CS training

• Being a sports fan is a plus!

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.

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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, in addition to equity incentives. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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