Build out the backend for Pinner-facing features to power the future of inspiration on Pinterest
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
May 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

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience.
4+ years of industry backend development experience, building consumer or business facing products
Proficiency in common backend tech stacks for online service, storage, caching and data processing
Proficiency in building GraphQL APIs and converting REST to GraphQL
Passionate about working on a Platform team; experience owning large projects
Self-motivated and a desire to improve the lives of other developers / internal developer productivity
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 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.

Benefits

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciencerelated field or equivalent experience