About the position
Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.
Responsibilities
- Build out the backend 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.
- Rapidly prototype, run A/B tests, and architect and build solutions that can scale to support hundreds of millions of users.
- Partner with design, product, and engineering teams to build end-to-end functionality.
- Suggest new product ideas and features.
- Employ automated testing to build features with a high degree of technical quality.
- Take responsibility for the components and features you develop.
- Grow as an engineer by working with world-class peers on varied and high impact projects.
Requirements
- Master’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or closely related quantitative discipline and two (2) years of experience in the job offered or in any occupation in related field.
- OR Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field) or closely related quantitative discipline and five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in the job offered or in any occupation in related field.
Nice-to-haves
- Python
- RESTful API
- Data processing
- Golang
- PostgreSQL
- A/B testing
- MySQL
- Kafka
- Django
- backend storage and caching
Benefits
- Equity eligibility
- Transparent salary range
