Software Engineer, iOS
Job Description
About Pinterest:
Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.
We are looking for a passionate, talented iOS Engineer to join the Engineering team and help us build a product that allows our Pinners to find something inspiring every time they open the app. When you apply to this position, you may be considered for more than one team, as we have mobile engineering needs across many orgs/teams. Wherever you go at Pinterest, you will work with a world-class cross-functional team to build new features, establish stronger platforms and contribute to work that affects our hundreds of millions of users, daily.
What you’ll do:
- Knit across teams by collaborating with Product managers and designers and other functions to build a holistic product experience that’s right for all Pinners
- Prototype new experiences for Pinners to drive key metrics
- 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
- Analyze and visualize data to drive product insights and to inform our decisions
- Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop highly innovative consumer-facing mobile products
What we're looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Deep understanding of iOS development and best practices in Objective-C and/or Swift
- Deep understanding of UI development in iOS
- Knowledge of multi-threading, logging, memory management, caching, and builds on iOS
- Expertise in developing and debugging across a diverse service stack including storage and data solutions
- Demonstrated track record of improving software quality with stable releases
- Experience on platform teams/initiatives, driving technology adoption across feature teams
- Keeps up to date with new technologies to understand what should be incorporated
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Understanding of A/B testing is a plus
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance and candidates that apply should be based and legally authorized to work in Mexico. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
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