Job Specifications
Sr Software Dev Engineer ( Must be able to work on W2, No sponsorship, or C2C )
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
About the Company
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