Company:
LinkedIn
Location: Mountain View
Closing Date: 04/11/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
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, 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.
Join the Media SDK team at LinkedIn, where we handle all media-related functions across our platform. Our team develops SDK libraries that are integral to LinkedIn’s apps, ensuring seamless media integration and high-quality user experiences. You’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, collaborate with skilled engineers, and contribute to features that connect millions of professionals worldwide. If you’re passionate about media technology and eager to make an impact, we’d love to have you on our team.
Responsibilities:
- You will design and build multiple media libraries covering image, video etc, which are adopted across Linkedin ecosystem family apps.
- You will design and execute user-facing features for the native LinkedIn app on Android devices by leveraging mobile operating system frameworks for multi-threading, persisting data, and managing user experience and graphics across multiple screen sizes.
- You will use the latest cutting edge technologies and libraries suggested by Google for building responsive native apps for Android.
- You will build scalable native mobile apps using LinkedIn’s internal libraries.
- You will make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
- 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-wise critical programs.
- You will identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity.
Basic Qualifications:
- BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 1+ years of industry experience
- Programming experience in languages such as Java, C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Kotlin, etc.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years of relevant work experience.
- MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
- Foundation in computer science with a strong understanding of data structures, object-oriented programming, and algorithms.
- Knowledge of common mobile application design patterns (MVC, MVVM, MVP, etc.)
- Familiarity with API design and client/server communication principles.
- Understanding of best practices for multithreading and performance optimizations.
- Knowledge of Android debugging tools including profiling app performance.
- Experience writing automated tests for Android apps.
- Programming experience in Java, and Kotlin.
Suggested Skills:
- Android SDK and APIs
- Android Studio
- Kotlin
- Java
- Version Control
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 $99,000 - $163,000. 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 Opportunity Statement
LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: Please reference and for more information.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
-Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
-Having interviews in an accessible location
-Being accompanied by a service dog
-Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
This document provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants:
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, 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.
Join the Media SDK team at LinkedIn, where we handle all media-related functions across our platform. Our team develops SDK libraries that are integral to LinkedIn’s apps, ensuring seamless media integration and high-quality user experiences. You’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, collaborate with skilled engineers, and contribute to features that connect millions of professionals worldwide. If you’re passionate about media technology and eager to make an impact, we’d love to have you on our team.
Responsibilities:
- You will design and build multiple media libraries covering image, video etc, which are adopted across Linkedin ecosystem family apps.
- You will design and execute user-facing features for the native LinkedIn app on Android devices by leveraging mobile operating system frameworks for multi-threading, persisting data, and managing user experience and graphics across multiple screen sizes.
- You will use the latest cutting edge technologies and libraries suggested by Google for building responsive native apps for Android.
- You will build scalable native mobile apps using LinkedIn’s internal libraries.
- You will make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
- 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-wise critical programs.
- You will identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity.
Basic Qualifications:
- BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 1+ years of industry experience
- Programming experience in languages such as Java, C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Kotlin, etc.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years of relevant work experience.
- MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
- Foundation in computer science with a strong understanding of data structures, object-oriented programming, and algorithms.
- Knowledge of common mobile application design patterns (MVC, MVVM, MVP, etc.)
- Familiarity with API design and client/server communication principles.
- Understanding of best practices for multithreading and performance optimizations.
- Knowledge of Android debugging tools including profiling app performance.
- Experience writing automated tests for Android apps.
- Programming experience in Java, and Kotlin.
Suggested Skills:
- Android SDK and APIs
- Android Studio
- Kotlin
- Java
- Version Control
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 $99,000 - $163,000. 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 Opportunity Statement
LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: Please reference and for more information.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
-Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
-Having interviews in an accessible location
-Being accompanied by a service dog
-Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
This document provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: