Yahoo Mail has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Mobile Engineer to join our Mobile platform strategy and explore React Native. As a senior mobile engineer, you will evolve the mobile culture and help build our apps in a scalable fashion. You’ll play a key role in our technology decisions and implementation, and you’ll see firsthand the impact that we’re making. You’ll build and support functionality in primarily React Native but also interact with native code for both our iOS and Android apps.
You’ll collaborate directly with design, backend, and product to shape how Mail works.
If you love React Native, smooth UI, strong system design, and mobile apps,, this is your chance to build something millions will use.
Responsibilities:Architect and implement cross‑platform mobile apps (iOS/Android) using React Native delivering polished, native‑feel experiences.
Explore building, Design, implement, and test features in a new React Native app
Scale up our business by designing, building, and supporting easy-to-use mobile applications
Enhance existing systems to add new functionality, and to improve performance, stability, quality, and security
Drive and support the team’s commitment to code craft, cutting edge tooling, monitoring
Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to understand and refine product requirements
Provide mentorship to your peers in the broader engineering team through code reviews and education on best practices
6+ years’ experience building, shipping, and supporting react native applications. You’ve seen what works, and probably a few things that didn’t work
Have independently worked and delivered a small app or entire feature in a larger app. A proven track record of building and launching 0 → 1 mobile apps, ideally in consumer domains
Hands-on experience with modern RN patterns: custom hooks, Zustand/Recoil, Reanimated, FlatList, memoization, and performance profiling
Excitement about working in our mobile tech stack, which includes both React Native and Android/iOS Native
Ability to act with autonomy & self-direction while working well in a team environment
Willingness to pitch in wherever needed - we need to do good work, quickly
Are comfortable with working across domains and languages with a curiosity to experiment & learn new things
Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, including quickly getting up to speed with new technologies
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.
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The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/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.Currently work for Yahoo? Please apply on our internal career site.
