Sr. Software Engineer, Backend

We are looking for inquisitive well-rounded Senior Full-Stack and Backend engineers to join our Monetization and Core engineering teams. Working closely with product managers designers and backend engineers youll play an important role in enabling the newest technologies and experiences. You will build robust frameworks & features. You will empower both developers and Pinners alike. Youll have the opportunity to find creative solutions to thought-provoking problems. Even better because we covet the kind of courageous thinking thats required in order for big bets and smart risks to pay off youll be invited to create and drive new initiatives seeing them from inception through to technical design implementation and release.

We have several positions open across multiple teams including opportunities on both the Product and Platform side of Pinterest.

What youll do:

• Build out the backend for Pinner-facing features to power the future of inspiration on Pinterest
• Contribute to and lead each step of the product development process from ideation to implementation to release; from rapidly prototyping running A/B tests to architecting and building solutions that can scale to support millions of users
• Partner with design product and backend teams to build end-to-end functionality
• Put on your Pinner hat to suggest new product ideas and features
• Employ automated testing to build features with a high degree of technical quality taking responsibility for the components and features you develop
• Grow as an engineer by working with world-class peers on varied and high impact projects
• Design develop and operate large scale distributed systems and networks
• Work with Engineering customers to understand new requirements and address them in a scalable and efficient manner
• Actively work to improve the developer process and experience in all phases from coding to operation

What were looking for:

• 5 years of industry backend development experience building consumer or business facing products
• Proficiency in common backend tech stacks for RESTful API online service storage caching and data processing
• Experience in following best practices in writing reliable and maintainable code that may be used by many other engineers
• Ability to keep up-to-date with new technologies to understand what should be incorporated
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Experience leading or owning projects mentoring others or driving technical thought leadership
• Experience building & operating large scale distributed systems and/or networks. Bonus points if you enjoy deploying and operating large scale workloads on a public cloud footprint
• Experience in Python Java C or Go or another language and a willingness to learn
• Bonus points if you have experience with any of the following (needs vary from team to team): Developer Enablement/Productivity or Internal Tooling CI/CD Generative AI/LLMs Spark/Flink/Big Data technologies Data Science/Analytics Building Products or Internal Tools from Scratch

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC