Software Engineer, Pinterest
iOS
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience working in iOS development
- Strong experience in writing reliable, maintainable, and impactful code that will be used by many other engineers
- Enthusiasm for collaborating with a diverse array of partners, including product managers and engineers across a variety of platforms and teams, data engineers, release services, and analysts
- Enthusiasm for “behind the scenes” work that is a high priority for Pinterest, but will not be seen by users
- Strong communication skills and confidence working with developers in a different time zone (this team will frequently work with SF engineers)
- Experience with relational databases and query languages
- Nice to have: Experience maintaining and improving UI tests
- Nice to have: Experience building ways to measure user behavior on iOS applications
- Nice to have: Experience evaluating user metrics to understand app usage
- Nice to have: Experience working with developers as customers to address the needs of engineers
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
- The Metrics Quality mission is to ensure the accuracy of client side logging and partner with teams to ensure overall metrics accuracy
- Members of the team will investigate logging anomalies
- Partner with product teams to ensure accurate metrics and build tools that allow the entire company to have confidence in the metrics
- This role is extremely important as it allows the company to make good decisions based on correct data as well enables more powerful machine learning
- Create tooling and education allowing for client engineers to instrument metric logging effectively
- Work with data engineers to create, manage, and investigate early metric anomaly alerts
- Certify company critical metrics are accurate and ensure they will remain accurate with a variety of testing
- Creating new accurate metrics to allow a deeper understanding of the user’s behavior and needs
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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