About Pinterest:
Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It's where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you'll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You'll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet. Our new progressive work model is called PinFlex, a term that's uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working. We are looking for inquisitive, well-rounded Backend engineers to join our Monetization engineering teams. Working closely with product managers, designers, and backend 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.
What you'll 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.
What we're looking for:
- 2 years of industry backend development experience, building consumer or business facing products.
- Proficiency in common backend tech stacks for RESTful 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.
Backend Monetization Engineering teams:
Ads API Platform, Ads Indexing Platform, Ads Retrieval Infra, Ads Serving and ML Infra, Measurement Ingestion, Merchant Infra.
Our Commitment to Diversity:
At Pinterest, our mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love--and that includes our employees. We're taking on the most exciting challenges of our working lives, and we succeed with a team that represents an inclusive and diverse set of identities and backgrounds.
Salary Range:
$80K -- $100K
Minimum Qualification:
Systems Architecture & Engineering, Software Development
Estimated Salary:
$20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications