Senior Staff Software Engineer - Applications
Get more replies from employers
Send a job-specific resume in minutes.
Benefits offered by this job
Job summary
Qualifications
- 12+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
- 5+ years of experience in an architect or technical leadership position.
- Expert knowledge of computer science with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
Responsibilities
- Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to improve the engineering organization.
- Scale distributed applications and deliver high-quality software.
- Resolve conflicts between teams and facilitate alignment.
Skills
Education
Tools
Job description
Direct message the job poster from LinkedIn
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to help members of all backgrounds and experiences achieve more in their careers. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Every day our members use our products to make connections, discover opportunities, build skills, and gain insights. We believe amazing things happen when we work together in an environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging, and that what matters most in a candidate is having the skills needed to succeed. It inspires us to invest in our talent and support career growth. Join us to challenge yourself with work that matters.
As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key technical leader and role model within the team. We are looking for someone who designs and develops technology to serve business and technology objectives, aligns points of view across teams and makes smart tradeoffs to help achieve the goals of individual teams as well as LinkedIn’s broader goals. This leader will foster LinkedIn’s culture and values around transformation, collaboration, and results.
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.
- Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization
- Actively improve the level of craftsmanship at LinkedIn by developing best practices and defining best strategies
- Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality
- Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration
- Be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on craftsmanship
- Identify, leverage, and evangelize opportunities and collaborate with cross functional teams to design and build scalable platforms/products/services/tools and to improve engineering productivity
- Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack
- Resolve conflicts between teams within the organization to get alignment and build team culture
- Review others’ work and share knowledge
- Engineering degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- 12+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions
- 5+ years of experience in an architect or technical leadership position
- 12+ years of experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions with at least 5 years of experience in a technical leadership position
- 10+ years of experience with object oriented design, coding, testing patterns, and programming languages (Java, C++, C#, etc.)
- 8+ years experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders, understand the product priorities, think with the big picture and solve core problems efficiently
- Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale and strong object oriented skills
- Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
- 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
- Technical Leadership
- Distributed Systems
- Software Design
- Technical Communication
- Cross-organizational collaboration
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 an equal employment opportunity employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. For more information on our equal opportunity policy, please visit https://legal.linkedin.com/content/dam/legal/Policy_India_EqualOppPWD_9-12-2023.pdf
This document provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal
'/%3e%3cpath%20d='M101.744%2012.4726L102.894%2016.1947L99.0021%2013.2201L101.744%2012.4726ZM105.3%208.40937H100.488L99.0026%203.59473L97.5116%208.41047L92.7%208.40385L96.5965%2011.3834L95.1055%2016.1942L99.0021%2013.2196L101.408%2011.3834L105.3%208.40992V8.40937Z'%20fill='white'/%3e%3cdefs%3e%3clinearGradient%20id='paint0_linear_5593_1381'%20x1='90'%20y1='9.44471'%20x2='99'%20y2='9.44471'%20gradientUnits='userSpaceOnUse'%3e%3cstop%20stop-color='%2300AD70'/%3e%3cstop%20offset='0.998594'%20stop-color='%2300B67A'/%3e%3cstop%20offset='1'%20stop-color='%23DCDCE6'/%3e%3c/linearGradient%3e%3c/defs%3e%3c/svg%3e){kind=small}
