Sr Software Dev Engineer

Duration:
6 months

Location
: Remote (US)

Coding Test:
Required

Pay: $75-$80 hr
Job Description
Overview of the team: Yahoo Sports App Backend team

Yahoo Sports is looking for seasoned back-end developers who are passionate about technology and excited about the potential of AI-driven innovations in sports experiences. Join our growing team to help define and build our top-rated sport app.

Key Team Goals
As a back-end developer, you'll work with a team of talented engineers to design and build scalable, efficient systems that deliver real-time sports data, personalized experiences, and engaging fan interactions used by millions worldwide.

Key Projects Or Initiatives For The Role

• Sierra to Graphite migration: We serve our APIs to the mobile sports apps, some of our APIs use older versions of Data API that are being EOL.
• The data team has new APIs that we need to migrate to, they are not 100% compatible with the old one, so we need to work with them if some data is missing.
• Mobile clients shouldn't be aware of this change.

Success Metrics Or KPIs For This Role

• We should be able to migrate the APIs, depend on complexity, we hope to migrate 1-2 components / APIs per week

Must-have Skills/qualifications (technical, Soft Skills, Certifications, Tools)

• 5+ years of Java or Kotlin development experience, including building and supporting user-facing web products
• 5+ years of experience with server-side API programming on Linux, focusing on scalable, high-performance web services
• Strong fundamentals in object-oriented design, design patterns, data structures, algorithm design, and problem-solving
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud infrastructure
• Commitment to well-designed, well-documented code

Ideal Experience Level (years, Leadership, Industries)

• 8+years of experience
• Exceptional analytical aptitude and attention to detail
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated, well-organized team player
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Desired Personality Or Work Style

• work independent, collaboration, communication skill, problem solver, fast paced environment, quick learner, accountable.
• A passion for sports and fantasy sports
• Experience developing GraphQL servers
• Expertise in highly available distributed data services
• Experience with AWS services like S3, DynamoDB, SQS, API Gateway
• Experience in using AI to develop code and solve problem

Key Attributes Or Values Sought In The Candidate

• work as a team. Build solutions that are maintainable. Quality driven. Flexible and adaptable.

Primary Responsibilities (daily/weekly)

• Write code with tests for migrating APIs implementation.
• Follow up end to end with migration:
• Decide which API should be the best to migrate first Work with Data team on missing parts
• Create PR with the change (include testing and feature flag)
• Verify the change on stage environment
• Applying the change in prod and monitor for crashes / missing data

Hiring timeline and deadlines: 4 to 6 weeks.

• Interview process (who, how many rounds): 1-2 rounds