SiliconRepublic.com spoke with experts from Yahoo Mail about standing out in a competitive field and the opportunities open to jobseekers.
“Yahoo Mail is in the midst of our most significant engineering transformation in over a decade,” said Nikhil Gandhi, the senior vice-president of engineering at Yahoo Mail.
“We’re building a ground-up mobile redesign and a modernised desktop experience and embedding unique AI experiences across the product,” he said. “The team in Ireland plays a critical role in continuing to scale our work globally and the engineers we’re hiring have an opportunity to work on products with real reach and impact.”
Kiran Krishna Hegde, a senior manager and systems engineer at Yahoo Mail, explained that for now at the company, the focus is on the intelligence engineering hub in Ireland and moving from team build-out to delivery, making the right key hires and getting new team members onboarded and contributing.
To meet those needs, he said: “We are looking for engineers with strong fundamentals, sound judgement and real ownership. Coding and system design are the table stakes, but we are not just looking for people who can ship features. We want people who understand scale, reliability, trade-offs and the difference between getting something working and building it properly.”
