Sr. Android Engineer, Yahoo! Fantasy Sports

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.

Yahoo Fantasy Sports is a passionate development team that has an equally passionate user base. We work on both Season Long and Daily Fantasy products delivering a high quality feature rich product to please our users. We work in a deadline driven environment while still having a culture of fun and fandom.

You are an experienced, motivated engineer who is passionate about mobile app development and building high quality products. You thrive working as part of a team of smart, talented engineers and product designers who value team discussions and sharing constructive feedback. You are curious, driven, and enjoy challenging work.

• Collaborate with other developers and designers to help define, build, and deliver new features in our Sports mobile apps.
• Code -- you will spend most of your time building Android apps, efficiently coding in Java / Kotlin. This includes new feature development, architecture, writing unit tests, refactors, and bug/crash fixes.
• Share responsibilities like app architecture/design reviews, code reviews, performance tuning, and build pipeline management.
• Own and deliver -- from the small must-do tasks to larger, complex projects with many moving parts.
• Share your opinions and help shape our technical direction, best practices, product ideas, and team processes. We value and depend on your input!

• Solid coding chops, code design skills, and practitioner of mobile development best practices -- including object-oriented design principles; design pattern usage; writing modular, reusable, testable code; data structures; concurrency; performance profiling and tuning.
• Developing proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Android Studio, Gradle, git, etc.
  
  -- the skills and tools needed to build Android apps.
• Up-to date on the Android best practices such as Live Data, Jet Pack Compose, Coroutines, Flows.
• Experience in various Android App architectures - MVP, MVVM, MVI.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills.
• The quintessential teammate -- great communicator, adaptable, supportive, hard working, and enjoys a good laugh.

• MS in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent CS training.
• Being a sports fan is a big 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.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don't require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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