Staff Software Engineer, TwoTwenty
Job Summary
This role involves developing APIs, business logic, and scalable features for new products and apps with a focus on supporting millions of users. The candidate will work on core platform technologies, collaborate with product managers and designers, and analyze data to inform product decisions. The position requires strong programming skills and experience with user-facing features or developer tools. It offers the opportunity to contribute to innovative consumer-facing web products in a hybrid or remote work environment.
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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.
TwoTwenty's purpose is to disrupt Pinterest before Pinterest is disrupted by others. We are focused on aggressively building new standalone apps that uses AI to disrupt Pinterest.
What you'll do:
- Writing APIs and business logic that will be used by new products and apps to explore viability.
- Develop production-ready features for public release that can scale to support millions of users.
- Develop core platform technologies to enable rapid prototyping of new features and products.
- Work with PMs and Designers to contribute to product ideation and strategy.
- 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 web products
What we’re looking for:
- Three or more years of experience developing user-facing features or developer tools.
- Strong experience in writing reliable, maintainable, and powerful code that may be used by many other engineers.
- Enthusiasm for collaborating with a diverse array of partners, including product managers, designers, and engineers across a variety of platforms.
- Fearless curiosity, thoughtful empathy, and an earnest appreciation for the power of asking “what if?”
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
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