Software Engineer, Backend

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Pinterest:</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the <a href="https://www.pinterestcareers.com/our-life/pinflex/">flexibility</a> to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.</p></div><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are looking for inquisitive, well-rounded Backend engineers to join our Core 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.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What you’ll do:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Write high-quality, performant Python/Java code to build out workflows leveraging API’s that enable our systems that maintain Pinner trust from a Privacy and regulatory compliance perspective</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 leverage large-scale data</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Partner with design, product, and backend teams to build end-to-end functionality</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Put on your Pinner hat to suggest new product ideas and features</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Employ automated testing to build features with a high degree of technical quality, taking responsibility for the components and features you develop</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Grow as an engineer by working with world-class peers on varied and high-impact projects</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>What we’re looking for:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field or equivalent experience</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deep understanding of API/workflow development and best practices in Python or Java</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">3+ years of industry API and backend development experience, building API endpoints for consumer or business-facing products</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proficiency in common backend tech stacks for RESTful API, storage, caching, and data processing</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience in following best practices in writing reliable and maintainable code that may be used by many other engineers</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ability to keep up-to-date with new technologies to understand what should be incorporated</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Strong collaboration and communication skills</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience with Gra ... (truncated, view full listing at source)