Senior Software Engineer, Pinterest
Solutions Engineering
$135.8-279.4k
+ Equity
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Job no longer available
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$135.8-279.4k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of industry development experience, building consumer or business-facing products
- Proficiency in common backend/data tech stacks for RESTful API, online service, storage, caching, and data processing
- Solid understanding of SQL and experience working with analytical databases
- Experience in following best practices in writing reliable and maintainable code
- Ability to keep up-to-date with new technologies to understand what should be incorporated
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Experience in Python, Javascript, or another language and a willingness to learn
- Experience with Jupyter Notebooks and other Python data frameworks a plus
What the job involves
- In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward
- You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet
- Pinterest is looking for a Sr Software Engineer to join Performance Solutions Engineering within our Performance Solutions team
- This role will be responsible for building software solutions that enable advertisers to drive success and growth on the Pinterest platform
- You’ll have a unique opportunity to work directly with our top clients to help them design and build on the Pinterest platform, as well as build tools that add leverage or efficiency for the broader Performance Solutions Org
- We value individuals who are owners and encourage the kind of courageous thinking required for big bets and smart risks to pay off
- You’ll be invited to create and drive new initiatives, overseeing them from inception through technical design, implementation, and release
- The Performance Solutions team sits within the Global Sales Strategy (GSS) organization
- Performance Solutions delivers through strategic guidance, operational excellence, and technical expertise to improve the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, resulting in increased client ROI
- We work to understand, innovate, and scale cross-functional workflows
- We are responsible for measuring process impact and making our business more efficient with consistent execution while embarking on building the next generation of data-driven best practices
- Build and maintain technical solutions for our advertisers, partners, and internal teams in an agile environment
- Contribute to and lead each step of the development process, from requirements gathering and ideation to implementation and release
- Work with product managers, technical project managers, and stakeholders 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 release
Our take
Inspiration and ideas can pop into your head at any time, and with the growth of social media and networking, sharing these interests and gaining exposure has never been easier. Pinterest exists to display these moments visually, as a kind of digital pinboard allowing users to save and share digital images which have inspired them.
Pinterest's emphasis on visual discovery has differentiated it from competitors and created a more positive and fulfilling experience for its users. Pinterest in many ways provides a respite from the ceaseless negativity that plagues social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 450 million users in 2022, driven by uptake mostly outside of North America.
Pinterest has not been immune to woes affecting the global tech sector and made about 5% of its workforce redundant at the end of 2022 and the start of 2023. Having restructured to face a challenging climate, it is well-positioned to resume its growth, which has increased consistently year on year. Its immediate goals are to continue to grow its user base and expand the uptake of its short video product, which it aims to monetize.
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Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Ben Silbermann
(CEO)Worked as a Product Specialist at Google for 2 years before leaving to work on his own apps, which led to founding Pinterest
People progressing
Joined as Marketing Lead, promoted to Head of Growth Ops for English-speaking markets after 3 years. They've have since been promoted to Global Head of Editorial, a position they started in 2022.
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