Remote Senior Backend Software Engineer Job in Seattle, WA Pinterest

Who you are

• 4+ years of industry backend development experience
• Proficiency in common backend tech stacks for online service, storage, caching, and data processing
• Proficiency in building GraphQL APIs and converting REST to GraphQL
• Experience owning large projects
• Self-motivated and a desire to improve the lives of other developers and internal developer productivity
• Experience in following best practices in writing reliable and maintainable code
• Ability to keep up-to-date with new technologies
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Experience building and operating large scale distributed systems and networks

Desirables

• Inquisitive
• Well-rounded
• Self-motivated
• Strong collaboration skills
• Strong communication skills
• Passionate about platform teams
• Up-to-date with new technologies
• Enjoys deploying and operating large scale workloads

What the job involves

• You will play an important role in enabling the newest technologies and experiences as we scale and evolve
• You will build robust frameworks and features
• You will work closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and backend engineers
• You will accelerate velocity for one of the world's largest public cloud workloads.
• You will empower both developers and Pinners alike
• You will have the opportunity to find creative solutions to thought-provoking problems
• You will create and drive new initiatives, seeing them from inception through to technical design, implementation, and release
• You will employ automated testing to build features with a high degree of technical quality, taking responsibility for the components and features you develop
• You will design, develop, and operate large scale, distributed systems and networks