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 helping Pinners make 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 PinFlex landing page to learn more. 

The Internal Tool Platform at Pinterest is responsible for enhancing the developer experience and ensuring the quality of internal tooling development. Our team maintains internal frameworks and vendor solutions that enable developers to create internal tools focusing on business logic without the need to worry about general setup related to traffic, authentication, CI/CD, and testing. You will have a significant impact on the developer velocity of hundreds of engineers across different organizations, ultimately improving the internal tool user experiences for all employees at Pinterest.

 

What you’ll do:

• Enhance our developer platform to accelerate internal tool development for hundreds of engineers.
• Standardize internal tooling development to adhere to best practices in infrastructure and security.
• Contribute to the Internal Tool Platform vision and strategy and drive the execution by collaborating with customers and partners. 
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks in internal tool development processes.
• Improve the maintainability, scalability, and observability of the internal tool monorepo to enable our developers to leverage the latest cutting-edge technologies.
• Collaborate with cross functional partners to tackle challenging internal tool projects.
• Mentor team members and participate actively in design and code reviews, team processes and architectural decisions.

 

What we’re looking for:

• 2+ years of experience in Web development and a deep understanding of JavaScript, CSS, DOM, HTTP protocol and how the web works.
• Expertise with technologies such as React, Redux (or other state management solutions),, GraphQL, TypeScript, Jest and React Testing Library.
• Good knowledge of build tools such as Webpack, Docker, Jenkins, and K8s.
• Familiarity with Node.js, server-side rendering techniques, and frameworks such as Next.js.
• Track record of delivering large, cross-functional projects across multiple organizations and being a champion of developer experience, performance and quality.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams to make platform improvements, test functionality, and evangelize adoption of platform features.
• Love for Web and drive to keep up-to-date with new technologies, trends and best practices in client architecture.

 

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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Our Commitment to Diversity:

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require an accommodation during the job application process, please notify accessibility@pinterest.com for support.