Director, Software Apps Engineering

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.

A Little About Us

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.

Yahoo is made up of several organizations, each led by a GM and focused on driving key product lines. 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.

A Lot About You

You’re an experienced engineering leader who loves building and empowering teams to create and maintain products that delight millions of users. You’re passionate about high-quality application development, technology stack, and the cloud — and you take pride in seeing your teams deliver great consumer experiences at scale. You know how to balance big-picture vision with hands-on leadership — guiding teams to think deeply about users, scenarios, and edge cases, while driving projects to successful completion.

You lead with empathy and curiosity, create a culture of growth and collaboration, and understand the broader impact of great engineering on both people and the business. If you’re excited to join a world-class team of passionate engineers and industry veterans who care about code quality, design, and user experience as much as they enjoy working together — we’d love to talk to you.

Responsibilities:

- Build and scale high-performing full-stack development teams that deliver world-class products and experiences.
- Attract, engage, and retain top engineering talent, fostering an environment where individuals thrive and grow.
- Define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the team, providing clear leadership and direction in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Cultivate a culture of innovation, growth mindset, and customer obsession, inspiring teams to challenge convention and raise the bar.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Marketing and external partners to align on strategy, priorities, and execution.
- Stay deeply connected to technology trends, leading technical reviews and diving into details when needed to ensure excellence.
- Set clear goals and performance expectations, measure impact against objectives, and continuously optimize for outcomes.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience, with 10+ years of building and delivering large-scale consumer applications and 5+ years leading engineering teams.
- Proven ability to align technical execution with business and product strategy, inspiring teams to deliver impactful results.
- Strong hands-on experience with object-oriented programming — ideally in Java, Kotlin, Swift, or similar languages.
- Strong expertise in scalable application development, including clustering, caching, performance tuning, and system design.
- Experience in modern web technologies such as TypeScript, Node.js, HTML5, CSS3, and object-oriented JavaScript.
- Experience with mobile app development, frameworks and platform components.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean) and engineering best practices like continuous integration, deployment and automated testing.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage priorities across multiple teams and initiatives.
- Experience with AI tools, technologies, and modern machine learning applications that enhance developer and user experiences.
- Skilled at leading diverse, distributed teams and fostering collaboration across time zones and disciplines.
- Strong communicator and empathetic leader who builds trust, supports growth, and maintains a positive, constructive approach — even under pressure.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience developing or leading teams that build mail or messaging applications at scale.
- Proven track record driving user growth, engagement, and retention initiatives.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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!

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form ( www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html ) or call +1.866.772.3182 . Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace strengthens Yahoo and deepens our relationships. When you support everyone to be their best selves, they spark discovery, innovation and creativity. Among other efforts, our 11 employee resource groups (ERGs) enhance a culture of belonging with programs, events and fellowship that help educate, support and create a workplace where all feel welcome.

The compensation for this position ranges from $160,965.00 - $349,885.00/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. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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