Sr. Software Engineer, Backend
Sr. Software Engineer, Backend
Job Description
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
- 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
Qualifications
- 5+ years of industry backend development experience, building consumer or business facing products
- Proficiency in common backend tech stacks for RESTful API, online service, 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
- Experience leading or owning projects, mentoring others, or driving technical thought leadership
- Experience building & operating large scale distributed systems and/or networks
- Experience in Python, Java, C++, or Go or another language and a willingness to learn
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience deploying and operating large scale workloads on a public cloud footprint
- Experience with Developer Enablement/Productivity or Internal Tooling
- Experience with CI/CD
- Experience with Generative AI/LLMs
- Experience with Spark/Flink/Big Data technologies
- Experience with Data Science/Analytics
- Experience building Products or Internal Tools from Scratch
Locations
- Toronto, ON, CA
Salary
Estimated Salary Rangemedium confidence
180,000 - 280,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Backend developmentintermediate
- RESTful APIintermediate
- Online serviceintermediate
- Storageintermediate
- Cachingintermediate
- Data processingintermediate
- Pythonintermediate
- Javaintermediate
- C++intermediate
- Gointermediate
- Large scale distributed systemsintermediate
- Networksintermediate
- Automated testingintermediate
- A/B testingintermediate
- Prototypingintermediate
- Collaborationintermediate
- Communicationintermediate
- Project leadershipintermediate
- Mentoringintermediate
- Technical thought leadershipintermediate
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of industry backend development experience, building consumer or business facing products (experience)
- Proficiency in common backend tech stacks for RESTful API, online service, storage, caching and data processing (experience)
- Experience in following best practices in writing reliable and maintainable code that may be used by many other engineers (experience)
- Ability to keep up-to-date with new technologies to understand what should be incorporated (experience)
- Strong collaboration and communication skills (experience)
- Experience leading or owning projects, mentoring others, or driving technical thought leadership (experience)
- Experience building & operating large scale distributed systems and/or networks (experience)
- Experience in Python, Java, C++, or Go or another language and a willingness to learn (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience deploying and operating large scale workloads on a public cloud footprint (experience)
- Experience with Developer Enablement/Productivity or Internal Tooling (experience)
- Experience with CI/CD (experience)
- Experience with Generative AI/LLMs (experience)
- Experience with Spark/Flink/Big Data technologies (experience)
- Experience with Data Science/Analytics (experience)
- Experience building Products or Internal Tools from Scratch (experience)
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
- 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
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Sr. Software Engineer, Backend
Sr. Software Engineer, Backend
Job Description
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
- 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
Qualifications
- 5+ years of industry backend development experience, building consumer or business facing products
- Proficiency in common backend tech stacks for RESTful API, online service, 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
- Experience leading or owning projects, mentoring others, or driving technical thought leadership
- Experience building & operating large scale distributed systems and/or networks
- Experience in Python, Java, C++, or Go or another language and a willingness to learn
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience deploying and operating large scale workloads on a public cloud footprint
- Experience with Developer Enablement/Productivity or Internal Tooling
- Experience with CI/CD
- Experience with Generative AI/LLMs
- Experience with Spark/Flink/Big Data technologies
- Experience with Data Science/Analytics
- Experience building Products or Internal Tools from Scratch
Locations
- Toronto, ON, CA
Salary
Estimated Salary Rangemedium confidence
180,000 - 280,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Backend developmentintermediate
- RESTful APIintermediate
- Online serviceintermediate
- Storageintermediate
- Cachingintermediate
- Data processingintermediate
- Pythonintermediate
- Javaintermediate
- C++intermediate
- Gointermediate
- Large scale distributed systemsintermediate
- Networksintermediate
- Automated testingintermediate
- A/B testingintermediate
- Prototypingintermediate
- Collaborationintermediate
- Communicationintermediate
- Project leadershipintermediate
- Mentoringintermediate
- Technical thought leadershipintermediate
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of industry backend development experience, building consumer or business facing products (experience)
- Proficiency in common backend tech stacks for RESTful API, online service, storage, caching and data processing (experience)
- Experience in following best practices in writing reliable and maintainable code that may be used by many other engineers (experience)
- Ability to keep up-to-date with new technologies to understand what should be incorporated (experience)
- Strong collaboration and communication skills (experience)
- Experience leading or owning projects, mentoring others, or driving technical thought leadership (experience)
- Experience building & operating large scale distributed systems and/or networks (experience)
- Experience in Python, Java, C++, or Go or another language and a willingness to learn (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience deploying and operating large scale workloads on a public cloud footprint (experience)
- Experience with Developer Enablement/Productivity or Internal Tooling (experience)
- Experience with CI/CD (experience)
- Experience with Generative AI/LLMs (experience)
- Experience with Spark/Flink/Big Data technologies (experience)
- Experience with Data Science/Analytics (experience)
- Experience building Products or Internal Tools from Scratch (experience)
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
- 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
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