Senior Software Engineer

LinkedIn was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and everyday millions of people use our products to make connections, discover opportunities and gain insights. Our global reach means we get to have a direct impact on the world’s workforce in ways no other company can. We are much more than a digital resume – we transform lives through innovative products and technology.

LinkedIn's Productivity Engineering organization — Helps empower global employees, and customers to be productive with world class products and services by building solutions that power LinkedIn’s business, connect employees by providing an application. We drive technology vision, architecture, and design for systems that help the company deliver on major business processes. We deliver applications and products that enhance employees’ productivity in a seamless way, help grow our top line, and increase our efficiency.

As a part of this world-class software engineering team, you will be charged with architecting, designing, developing, and supporting some Internet-scale features and infrastructures at LinkedIn. The ideal candidate will be excited for the challenge to transform and think critically on many computer science disciplines including product design, usability, building APIs and user-centric online applications, business logic, scaling performance, and 24x7 reliability.

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.

Responsibilities:
- Develop, enhance, debug, support, analyze, maintain, and test new/existing functionality which supports internal business units or supporting functions.
- Design, document, build, test, and deploy scalable applications that help automating business processes which don’t necessarily need any human intervention to improve productivity and efficiency leveraging AI.
- Partner with the project management and operations team to deliver against the rising needs of the business.
- Resolve complex technical issues by taking ownership and collaborating with various internal teams when necessary.
- Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including discovery, analysis, requirements definition, solution design, configuration, code development, testing, deployment, and support.
- Work independently to make decisions regarding resolution of issues.
- Review upcoming product releases as well as other integrated applications and provide recommendations when necessary to enhance efficiency and productivity.
- Upskill internal team members by leading knowledge transfer sessions.
- Lead technical design reviews/approvals on behalf of a team.
- Consistently deliver output with a high degree of craftsmanship.

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or related practical experience
- 6+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions
- 6+ years of experience in any object-oriented programming languages such as Python, Java

Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or related practical experience
- 6+ years of relevant work experience.
- Experience building enterprise applications
- Demonstrated experience developing sophisticated backend systems
- Experience with persistent storage for e.g., SQL or NoSQL databases, blob, containers etc.
- Experience with Artificial Intelligence

Suggested Skills:
• Data Structures & Algorithms
• Software Design
• Python/Java

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.

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