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Pinterest · 2 days ago

Senior Backend Software Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$150K/yr - $308K/yr

4+ years exp

Pinterest is a platform that inspires creativity and helps users plan memorable experiences. They are seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to build robust backend features, collaborate with various teams, and contribute to large-scale distributed systems while enhancing developer processes.

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Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Backend developmentGraphQL APIsDistributed systemsPythonJavaC++GoCollaboration skillsCommunication skillsSelf-motivated

Required

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