Software Engineer (EPD Ads)

Pinterest; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking inquisitive full-stack and backend engineers to join Monetization Engineering. You’ll build robust frameworks and features, empowering developers and Pinners alike, driving new initiatives from inception to release.

Collaborate with design, product, and backend teams to deliver end-to-end functionality and scale solutions for millions of users, with a focus on reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of industry full-stack or backend development experience, building consumer or business facing products.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Build robust full-stack features powering Pinterest experiences.
• Partner with design, product, and backend teams to deliver end-to-end functionality.
• Lead initiatives from ideation through design, implementation, and release with scalable solutions.
• Employ automated testing to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.

Skills

Full-stack development

Backend development

Collaboration

Problem solving

Learning new technologies

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Javascript

React

API

Storage

Caching

Data processing

Job description

• We are looking for inquisitive, well-rounded Full-stack and 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
• 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

Experience in following best practices in writing reliable and maintainable code that may be used by many other engineersStrong collaboration and communication skillsProficiency in one or more common backend and frontend tech stacks: e.g. Javascript, React, API, storage, caching and data processingAbility to keep up-to-date with new technologies to understand what should be incorporatedMinimum 2 years of industry full-stack or backend development experience, building consumer or business facing productsBachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience