Software Engineer II, Backend

Pinterest • Seattle, WA

10h • Remote

About The Position

Pinterest is a platform where millions find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities, and plan for lasting memories. The company's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, starting with the people behind the product. Pinterest offers a career where individuals can ignite innovation, transform passion into growth, celebrate unique experiences, and embrace flexibility. AI is a powerful partner at Pinterest, augmenting creativity and amplifying impact, and candidates are sought who are excited to be part of this. The interview process focuses on foundational skills, collaboration with AI, and the ability to explain one's approach and thinking. The company is looking for inquisitive, well-rounded Backend engineers to join its Core and Monetization engineering teams. These engineers will work closely with product managers, designers, and other backend engineers to enable new technologies and experiences, build robust frameworks and features, and empower both developers and Pinners. The role offers opportunities to find creative solutions to thought-provoking problems and to create and drive new initiatives from inception through technical design, implementation, and release.

Requirements

• 2+ years of industry backend development experience, building consumer or business facing products
• Proficiency in common backend tech stacks for RESTful API, storage, caching and data processing
• 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
• 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.

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; from rapidly prototyping, running A/B tests, to architecting and building solutions that can scale to support millions of users
• 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
• 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)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees