Senior Software Engineer

Who you are

• Minimum 4 years of industry full-stack or backend development experience, building consumer or business facing products
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Proficiency in one or more common backend and frontend tech stacks: e.g. Javascript, React, API, 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
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times per month

What the job involves

• We are looking for inquisitive, well-rounded senior Full-stack and backend engineers to join our Monetization Engineering teams
• Working closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers, you’ll 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. You’ll have the opportunity to find creative solutions to thought-provoking problems
• Even better, because we covet the kind of courageous thinking that’s required in order for big bets and smart risks to pay off, you’ll be invited to create and drive new initiatives, seeing them from inception through to technical design, implementation, and release
• Build out full-stack 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