Software Engineer, Pinterest
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- Deep understanding of Web development and best practices in React/Redux
- 1+ years of industry Web application development experience, building consumer or business facing products
- 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
What the job involves
- We are looking for inquisitive, well-rounded Web engineers to join our Product engineering teams
- Working closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers, you’ll play an important role in enabling the newest technologies and experiences
- You will build robust frameworks & features
- You will empower both developers and Pinners alike
- You’ll have the opportunity to find creative solutions to thought-provoking problems
- Even better, because we covet the kind of courageous thinking that’s required in order for big bets and smart risks to pay off, you’ll be invited to create and drive new initiatives, seeing them from inception through to technical design, implementation, and release
- Build out Pinner-facing frontend features on Desktop Web and Mobile Web 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
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
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
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