In case, the 5 of you that read my blog are looking for a software engineering gig, we’ve got several positions available in my group. This is a unique opportunity in that you’d be working with a “Tiger Team” of guys who work on high-priority projects all over the company.

If you’re interested, please email your resume to msabramo@yahoo.com

Software Engineer - FlexForce

Description

Do you prefer to work on a wide variety of projects in a challenging environment? Have you ever felt that your job was monotonous or repetetive? Do you enjoy building a solid first version and then entrusting it to others to evolve? Do you enjoy change? If so, Yahoo’s platform engineering may have the job for you. Come be a part of our FlexForce team.

The FlexForce team at Yahoo is dedicated to providing highly skilled, senior engineers to a variety of projects. The intent of the team is to provide agility to the senior engineering management team. Tigers perform as an internal “consulting” team, providing short to medium term resourcing to dedicated product engineering teams that have critical or time sensitive problems. In the past Tigers have contributed to highly visible products such as Y! Mail and anti-spam, Y! Messenger, Y! Photos, Overture, Y! Search and others.

The ideal candidate is a technically strong engineer who likes a dynamic environment and assignments that change every 6-8 months. As a member of the team you will get wide exposure to a variety of Yahoo’s products. Due to the rapidly changing team environment, strong communications and teamwork skills are a must.

Skills/Qualifications

Required:

• MS/BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 5-7+ years industry experience building scalable systems in C/C++ on a Unix platform
• A proven track-record of technical leadership, including responsibility for design or architecture
• Good development-process skills: structured design documentation, build processes, coding styles, testing frameworks, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and take opportunities for code re-use
• Interest and demonstrated ability to work in complex team environments, with evolving team membership

Preferred:

• Experience working in a consulting firm or relevant experience within an internal staffing pool
• Experience w/ building highly available clustered applications
• Experience w/ relational databases, particularly Oracle and MySQL
• Experience w/ web-scripting languages including Perl or PHP

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