Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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🕒 April 1

🏄 California, Washington – Remote

🏄 California – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $149.6k - $308k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Pinterest

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

📱 Media

👥 B2C

💰 Post IPO equity on 2022-08

Media • B2C

Pinterest is a visual discovery and bookmarking platform that helps users discover, save, and organize images and ideas (Pins) for interests, projects, and shopping. It provides personalized recommendations and visual search so people can plan and explore topics like home design, fashion, recipes, and events, and it supports commerce features and ads for creators and retailers.

📋 Description

• 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 • Leverage AI to seek faster execution (i.e. draft, prototype, outline) and explore alternative options (i.e. iterate, compare approaches) • Leverage AI to synthesize information (summarize, distill themes) and automate repeatable tasks (documentation, reporting, QA checks)

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow for relevant outputs. • Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work (e.g., testing, source-checking, data validation, peer review). • High integrity and ownership: you protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables.

🏖️ Benefits

• Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.