Fullstack Engineer, Discovery Measurements

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.

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. 

Pinterest personalizes millions of experiences by using machine learning algorithms to sift through our catalog of one hundred billion Pins to find the best content for each Pinner. It is critical to measure the users experience across Pinterest and identify opportunities for improvement. The Discovery Measurements team’s charter is to establish human-powered ground truth for major Pinterest products, e.g. Search and Ads, and develop company critical measurements about relevance, domain quality, session experience, retention, and more. As we look to scale these platforms both vertically and horizontally, we’re looking for strong software engineers to join the team to drive technical excellence and curiosity. We need someone who has experience as a full-stack engineer to dive into challenging human-in-the-loop AI problems.

What you’ll do:

• You will start by building human-in-the-loop AI platforms to power ML models on production
• Design and implement the UI layer by closely working with Data Scientist, Product Managers, and Machine Learning engineers
• Contribute to the new unified human computation backend service
• Build the scalable backend API infrastructure which can be used to measure and evaluate all various deep learning and machine learning models on production

What we’re looking for:

• Mastery in frontend stack (Javascript/HTML/CSS), familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React/Redux)
• Knowledge of backend stack (Java, Python, Go) and how they interact with MySQL, Redis, Kafka, etc.
• Good judgment about shipping improvement quickly while ensuring the sustainability of platforms
• Ability to measure and improve large scale platforms

Our Commitment to Diversity:

At Pinterest, our mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love—and that includes our employees. We’re taking on the most exciting challenges of our working lives, and we succeed with a team that represents an inclusive and diverse set of identities and backgrounds.