The Tracking Team at LinkedIn is responsible for instrumenting & collecting accurate data of how LinkedIn users interact with our web & mobile applications. Data scientists use the tracking data to gain business insights, Product Managers use them to understand customer behavior and AI engineers use them to build relevance models to improve our products and services. Inaccurate data severely impacts decision making at LinkedIn. We collect data which is revenue sensitive and it is also used to report core 4 metrics of the company. We are building a next generation Tracking platform to efficiently collect interaction data for our billion plus users cutting across multiple technology stacks (mobile, applications, infrastructure) and generate insights in near real time.

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At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.


Responsibilities:

Design & develop new features (applications) that improve the way we collect member engagement data from LinkedIn web applications by leveraging web technologies & frameworks.
Make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
Produce high-quality software that is tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
Provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross-functional, and company-wise critical programs.
Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity & best practices for collecting member engagement data.


Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with semantic HTML, CSS and object-oriented JavaScript, jQuery.


Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive programming experience in modern JavaScript / TypeScript / similar languages.
• Extensive experience in frameworks such as EmberJS / React / similar.
• Experience developing multi-tier scalable and user-centric reliable applications that operate 24x7.
• Deep foundational knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Knowledge of UI and animation frameworks, touch user interface, and MVP application design.

Suggested Skills:
· Javascript
· HTML
· CSS