Staff iOS Software Engineer

LinkedIn

$156K — $255K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years in software design, development, and algorithms.
  • 4+ years programming experience in languages like Objective-C, Swift, Java, C/C++, Python.
  • Preferred: BS and 8+ years, MS and 7+, or PhD with 4+ years of relevant work experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute user-facing features for the iOS LinkedIn app using mobile frameworks.
  • Utilize cutting-edge technologies and libraries from Apple for responsive native app development.
  • Build scalable native mobile apps with LinkedIn's internal libraries.
  • Make architectural trade-offs using synchronous and asynchronous design patterns while delivering quality code.
  • Establish a robust CI pipeline for testing and building iOS apps.
  • Produce high-quality, unit-tested software that integrates continuously.
  • Provide technical leadership and implement best engineering practices for large-scale programs.

Benefits

  • Generous health and wellness programs.
  • Time away for employees of all levels.
  • Commitment to fair and equitable compensation practices.
Full Job Description
Job Description

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.

Our mission is to provide a reliable, efficient and intuitive development ecosystem to empower our iOS engineers to be productive. We serve hundreds of iOS engineers who build Linkedin's iOS applications. We work in all areas of the development lifecycle - from code authoring, code quality, build, and test infrastructure. Our team builds the core infrastructure, shared components, developer experience, and distributed testing infrastructure to address the challenges of scale that come with a large codebase and a large number of engineers. We improve the productivity of our engineers via projects focussed on code modularization, test/code isolation, and dependency management. We provide developers with the latest technologies by bringing the latest Apple tooling and releases to developers. We ensure that our CI pipelines and workflows are working as fast as possible through a combination of the above projects and other initiatives with LinkedIn's developer productivity team.

Responsibilities
  • You will design and execute user-facing features for the native LinkedIn app on iOS 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 Apple for building responsive native apps for iOS.
  • 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 build a robust CI pipeline to enable build and test pipeline for iOS apps at LinkedIn.
  • 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.


Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
  • BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.
  • 4+ years of industry experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions.
  • 4+ years programming experience in programming languages such as Objective-C, Swift, Java, C/C++, Python, etc.

Preferred Qualifications
  • BS and 8+ years of relevant work experience, MS and 7+ years of relevant work experience, or PhD and 4+ years of relevant work experience

Suggest Skills
  • Objective-C
  • Swift
  • iOS development toolchains such as Xcode, test frameworks
  • Working with Linux and/or Mac OS system environments, data structures and algorithms, object-oriented skills including design, coding, and testing patterns relational databases (transactional and non-transactional), database architecture, distributed transaction 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.

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $156,000 to $255,000 . 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 https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

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