Thursday 31 July 2014

Sr. SEO Engineer, Growth | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area


Sr. SEO Engineer, Growth | LinkedIn | San Francisco Bay Area


Sr. SEO Engineer, Growth

LinkedIn - San Francisco Bay Area

Posted 1 day ago
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Job description

The Growth Team at LinkedIn is looking for a senior-level Software Development Engineer to innovate LinkedIn's search engine optimization (SEO). The team is responsible for overall Growth with a very high SLA for membership Growth and Engagement. One of the key Growth drivers is the need to optimize SEO to maximize member acquisitions and finding content on LinkedIn. We work closely with cross functional teams across the organization to SEO their data, and responsible for the backend infrastructure to support SEO. We have aggressive goals and a highly effective team focused on moving fast, delivering results and having passion and fun in what we do!
In this role, you'll work with User Experience Designers, Product Managers and fellow developers to build both the client web components (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP) and server-side delivery code (Java, MVC). You'll be working across the company with multiple groups, bringing everyone's specializations together into a final product.
This is the job for you if:
You love the browser, despite its quirks, and can bend IE to your will.
You are the kind of person who loves a holistic approach to websites, bringing server and web client together into beautiful harmony.
You breathe in JSP/JavaScript/HTML/CSS/Java, exhale awesome, and want to be part of the team behind this very site you're reading right now.
You are passionate about the extraordinary, you are passionate about the user experience, membership growth and engagement, and you want to actually make a difference with your work. 
Specific job responsibilities will include:
• Designing and building large-scale analytics systems used to track traffic from search engines, trends in search terms, conversion and other key traffic metrics
• Designing and implementing dynamic website components, web services and back-end processes both used on desktop and mobile to improve ranking and indexing of LinkedIn pages
• Designing and delivering an experimentation framework to drive continuous testing of SEO concepts
• Working with other teams to improve platform support for SEO
• Optimizing the landing page experience and improve member signup conversion both on desktop and mobile

Desired Skills and Experience

• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, C++, C#, Python, or Perl
• Proficiency in JSP, PHP or Java and relevant tools (IDEs, Ant, JUnit, YUI-test, etc)
• Ability to build HTML, CSS, and JavaScript components and pages using JS frameworks such as jQuery, YUI, etc.
• Experience in developing SEO solutions
• Experience in building components of a large commercial search engine (e.g., crawling, indexing, run time query parsing, relevance ranking, etc.)
• Knowledge and experience with large scale MapReduce-based data processing frameworks like Hadoop
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field from a leading institution
• 5+ years of working experience (internship/coops included)
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, system design and complexity analysis
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment. You meet your commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration


http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18036767?trk=jserp_job_details_text


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