Software Engineer II

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 for 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.
• Rapidly prototype, run A/B tests, and architect and build solutions that can scale to support millions of users.
• Partner with design, product, and backend 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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

• Experience with Python
• Experience with Java
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with A/B testing
• Experience with Spring
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with React
• Experience with Javascript
• Experience with SQL
• Experience with Bash
• Experience with TypeScript
• Experience with Distributed systems

Benefits

• Standard company benefits
• Equity eligibility