Software Engineer - Personalization Platform (Frontend)

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

Team Description

You will be part of the team responsible for building and evolving LinkedIn’s personalization platform – the foundational infrastructure that enables every product team across LinkedIn to deliver personalized, intelligent, and context-aware experiences to over a billion members and enterprise customers.

The personalization platform team makes every interaction on LinkedIn more relevant, valuable, and effective – enabling members to discover the right opportunities, connect with the most meaningful people and content, and help enterprise customers find and engage the right talent, leads, or learners. By empowering these experiences, we help members become more productive and successful while enabling organizations to achieve their business goals more efficiently.

The systems the team builds empowers LinkedIn’s product teams to rapidly experiment, learn, and deliver differentiated experiences that drive member satisfaction, engagement, and enterprise productivity.

Responsibilities

• You will scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.

• You will develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.

• You will produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

• You will provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross functional, and company-wide critical programs. Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience

• 1+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions

• Experience programming in languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, React, C/C++, C#, Objective-C, Ruby, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale.

• Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.

• Proven coding skills in Python or JavaScript/AJAX, database design and SQL, and/or knowledge of TCP/IP and network programming.

• Experience building web applications and services with IDEs, ant, JUnit, etc.

• Experience with relational databases (transactional and non-transactional), database architecture, and distributed transaction management.

Suggested Skills:

• API Development

• Programming Proficiency

• Performance Optimization and Monitoring

• Collaboration

Additional Information

You will Benefit from our Culture

We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels.

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $124,000 - $167,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit .

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