Senior Software Apps Engineer - Android

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.

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.

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.

You’re committed to 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 mobile or web. 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.

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• Contribute to the definition, design, and development of complex new features in current and future products.
  
• Perform code reviews for your peers where you will be learning from and contributing to a collaborative working model.
  
• Tackle challenging engineering and user experience problems and implement elegant and seamless solutions.
  
• Lead the development and implementation for features and areas of the mobile application that impact millions of users.
  
• Work with engineering team members to explore and create interesting solutions while sharing knowledge amongst the team.
  
• Collaborate with user experience designers, 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.
  
• Grow in a culture of learning through design discussions and code reviews.
  
• Contribute to the deployment, monitoring, and operation of large‑scale production systems distributed across the globe.
  
• Recommend alternative approaches to solving complex problems and use new technology to achieve goals.
  

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• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 6+ years of experience.
  
• Strong Object Oriented programming experience: Kotlin, Java, C++ or similar.
  
• Strong foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
  
• Deep technical knowledge of Android mobile application development with a solid understanding of the framework components and their life cycles.
  
• Strong knowledge of software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture.
  
• Experience with mobile test‑driven development using Espresso, Roboelectric, Appium or similar technologies.
  
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
  

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• Experience building apps with React Native.
  
• Experience working with Jetpack Compose.
  
• Experience with AI, ML and GenAI.
  
• Shipped an app to the Google Play store.
  
• Experience developing Mobile application frameworks and/or SDK solutions for Identity, Payments, Analytics.
  
• Experience with Web Technologies (NodeJs, JSON, TypeScript, HTML5 and CSS3).
  
• Experience with Scrum or similar agile development methodology.
  
• Leverage AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) as a core part of your daily workflow to accelerate development velocity and optimize code quality.
  

To support collaboration in this newly established team, the role requires on‑site attendance at our Dublin office two days per week.

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