Software Engineering Manager

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

The Product Platform team assists our strategic partners, many of the world's largest and most innovative companies, to create compelling and high-quality experiences for our 900+ million members.

As the Engineering Manager, you will be partnering with product leadership and other cross-functional stakeholders to shape the product vision and strategy. As the technology leader for the team, you will be responsible for crafting the technology roadmap with an emphasis on craftsmanship and operational excellence. Realization of the roadmap is also heavily tied to the larger LinkedIn ecosystem Your ability to build relationships across the company, understand strategic priorities for LinkedIn as a whole, as well as its sub-parts resulting in strong collaboration, is critical to succeed in this role. You, along with your team will partner closely with Business Development, Product Managers, Product Engineers and external partners to find, define and work around external APIs.

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:

Manage the performance and career development of a small team of engineers, and own significant parts of Product Platform that require design, architecture, and coding.
Participate with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap.
Be a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on craftsmanship.
Work with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack.
Manage teams to scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, review code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.
Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration

Basic Qualifications:

BS/BA in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent technical experience
8+ years of industry experience and 2+ years of hands-on people management experience
3+ years experience in large-scale system design and software development
3+ years of hands-on technical management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s degree in computer science or related domain
Experience with building and growing teams
Experience in stakeholder management and partnering with product leadership on strategy, and creating a world class product experience that delights customers, helps them succeed, and thus grows the business
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Suggested Skills:
Technical Leadership
People Management
Stakeholder Management

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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