We are looking for inquisitive, well-rounded Senior Full-Stack and Backend engineers to join our Singapore Monetization tiger team and help grow APAC advertising business on Pinterest. 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.

What you’ll do

• Build out the backend for advertiser features to power the growth of Pinterest advertising business
• 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 advertisers and 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
• Partner closely with the local Sales team to meet with local advertising partners, forging strong collaborations and addressing their technical challenges firsthand.

What we’re looking for:

• 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. Bonus points if you enjoy deploying and operating large scale workloads on a public cloud footprint
• Experience in Python, Java, C++, or Go or another language and a willingness to learn
• Bonus points if you have experience with any of the following (needs vary from team to team): Developer Enablement/Productivity or Internal Tooling, CI/CD, Generative AI/LLMs, Spark/Flink/Big Data technologies, Data Science/Analytics, Building Products or Internal Tools from Scratch
• Strong proficiency in both English and Mandarin for effective communication with internal teams and external partners.

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

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.
• As such, this role will need to be in the office or in front of our customers for in-person collaboration, typically 2 days per week, and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance to our Singapore City based office.

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