About Pinterest:Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It's where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love.In your role, you'll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You'll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helpingPinnersmake their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.Creating a life you love also means finding a career that celebrates the unique perspectives and experiences that you bring. As you read through the expectations of the position, consider how your skills and experiences may complement the responsibilities of the role. We encourage you to think through your relevant and transferable skills from prior experiences.Our new progressive work model is called PinFlex, a term that's uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working. Visit our landing page to learn more.We are looking for inquisitive, well-rounded Backend engineers to join our Core, Monetization, and Tech Foundations engineering teams. Working closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and backend engineers, you'll play an important role in enabling the newest technologies and experiences as we scale and evolve. You will build robust frameworks & features. You will accelerate velocity for one of the world's largest public cloud workloads. 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 Pinner-facing features to power the future of inspiration on PinterestContribute 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 usersPartner with design, product, and backend teams to build end-to-end functionalityPut on your Pinner hat to suggest new product ideas and featuresEmploy automated testing to build features with a high degree of technical quality, taking responsibility for the components and features you developGrow as an engineer by working with world-class peers on varied and high impact projectsDesign, develop, and operate large scale, distributed systems and networksWork with Engineering customers to understand new requirements and address them in a scalable and efficient mannerActively work to improve the developer process and experience in all phases from coding to operationWhat we're looking for:4+ years of industry backend development experience, building consumer or business facing productsProficiency in common backend tech stacks for RESTful API, online service, storage, caching and data processingExperience in following best practices in writing reliable and maintainable code that may be used by many other engineersAbility to keep up-to-date with new technologies to understand what should be incorporatedStrong collaboration and communication skillsExperience building & operating large scale distributed systems and/or networks. Bonus points if you enjoy deploying and operating large scale workloads on a public cloud footprintExperience in Python, Java, C++, or Go or another language and a willingness to learnThis position is not eligible for relocation assistance.#LI-SA1#LI-REMOTEAt Pinterest we believe the workplace should be eq