Software Engineer - Personalization Platform (Frontend)

About the company

LinkedIn is a professional network used by people around the world to build connections, explore opportunities, develop skills, and gain useful insights. The organization also focuses on creating growth opportunities for employees and values a workplace culture grounded in trust, care, inclusion, and enjoyment.

Its mission is to help transform the way people work and succeed.

Role overview

This position sits within the personalization platform organization, which builds the core infrastructure that helps every LinkedIn product team deliver intelligent, context-aware, and highly tailored experiences for members and enterprise customers.

The team’s work improves relevance across the platform, helping members discover better opportunities, connect with the right people and content, and enabling enterprises to reach talent, leads, and learners more effectively.

The role uses a hybrid working model, so work will be split between home and a LinkedIn office on select days based on team needs.

What you will do

• Build and scale distributed applications while making thoughtful architecture decisions using both synchronous and asynchronous design approaches.
• Create multi-tier applications that are high-performing, dependable, scalable, and designed for around-the-clock use.
• Write maintainable software that goes through unit testing, code review, and regular integration into the main codebase.
• Provide technical direction for best engineering practices and help lead large, cross-functional, and business-critical initiatives.
• Spot opportunities to improve engineering productivity and actively promote better development practices.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science, another related technical discipline, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• At least 1 year of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm-based problem solving.
• Experience coding in one or more languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, React, C/C++, C#, Objective-C, or Ruby.

Preferred background

• Experience designing and building large-scale infrastructure and web services.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, especially in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Solid coding ability in Python or JavaScript/AJAX, plus database design and SQL, and/or familiarity with TCP/IP and network programming.
• Exposure to building web applications and services using tools such as IDEs, Ant, and JUnit.
• Experience with relational databases, database architecture, and distributed transaction handling.

Compensation and benefits

The annual base pay range for this role is $124,000 to $167,000. Final compensation depends on factors such as skills, experience depth, certifications, and work location.

The overall package may also include an annual performance bonus, equity/stock, benefits, and other incentive programs.

Employees and their families are supported through health and wellness programs and paid time away.

Equal opportunity and accessibility

LinkedIn is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, citizenship, or other protected status.

The company is committed to providing an accessible hiring experience. Candidates needing a reasonable accommodation during job search, application, or interviews can request support. Accommodation examples include alternate-format documents, accessible interview locations, a service dog, or a sign language interpreter. Requests are typically answered within three business days, while non-disability-related inquiries such as application follow-up will not receive a response.

Additional compliance notices cover pay transparency, fair chance hiring in San Francisco, non-discrimination related to compensation information, and candidate data privacy/legal notices.

Additional information

LinkedIn follows fair and equitable compensation practices and notes that pay may vary in other locations due to labor-market differences. The company also references its benefits information and candidate-portal legal notices for more details.