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Y! Sports Job Openings

Y! Sports Job Openings

Yahoo! Sports is Hiring.

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Have you ever wanted to make Yahoo! Sports better?

Can you take the largest online sports provider in the world to the next level? We are constantly hiring individuals with diverse areas of expertise to keep improving Yahoo! Sports. We're looking for people with talent and confidence to innovate in this constantly changing business.

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All jobs updated on Tuesday October 11, 2011

Yahoo! Sports Job Openings

  • Yahoo! Fantasy Sports Software Engineer (Sunnyvale, CA)

    Yahoo! Sports is looking for an experienced Software Engineer with a passion for sports. If you are intrigued by the challenge of building out our Fantasy Sports Platform to handle the next generation of games while maintaining the reliability and speed that we are famous for, all while reaching the largest user base in the industry, then this job is for you!

    As an individual contributor you will design, code, and own large portions of the Fantasy Sports Infrastructure. In addition, there will be plenty of opportunities to implement new games and improve upon existing games. As part of our world class engineering team in Sports, you will interact with engineers and product managers across the company to collect requirements, define feature sets, and build scalable and reliable components.

    Recommended Qualifications:

    • A BS degree or higher, preferably in CS
    • Excellent object oriented development skills
    • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
    • Demonstrable experience in software design or building websites
    • Experience developing in unix/linux environments

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  • Yahoo! Fantasy Sports iOS Engineer (Sunnyvale, CA)

    If you have experience in iOS and wish to build iPhone and iPad apps for Fantasy Sports games then this position is for you.

    As an individual contributor you will design, code, and own the Football, Baseball, Basketball and Hockey iOS apps. As part of our world class engineering team in Sports, you will interact with engineers and product managers across the company to collect requirements, define feature sets, and build scalable and reliable components.

    Recommended Qualifications:

    • A BS degree or higher, preferably in CS
    • Excellent object oriented development skills
    • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
    • Demonstrable experience in writing apps for iOS devices
    • Demonstrable good product design through personal or professional projects

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  • Yahoo! Sports Frontend Engineer (Santa Monica, CA)

    We're looking for an experienced, self-motivated and passionate client-side web developer to join the Sports Engineering team. You'll work closely with interaction designers, visual designers, software engineers and product managers in the ever expanding sports team.

    The environment is face-paced with numerous user-centered iterative design and development cycles. Here, you'll have a chance to join a growing team that is committed to crafting the best experience for our customers. If you're interested, please provide URLs and code samples of your work.

    Recommended Qualifications:

    • A BS degree or higher, preferably in CS
    • Strong command of JavaScript (YUI), DHTML, AJAX, DOM Levels 0-2, CSS and PHP
    • Experience in cross-browser compatibility issues, browser degradation strategies, optimization techniques, accessibility techniques, device-portability techniques and internationalization issues
    • Experience working with a Unix environment, CVS or SVN, and bug tracking tools is highly desirable
    • Knowledge of SOA, remote scripting, state management, Apache, and HTTP is helpful
    • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
    • Having your own site is a bonus!

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