Pinterest

Sr. Software Engineer, Android

Pinterest$100K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
  • Deep understanding of Android development best practices in Kotlin and/or Java.
  • 4+ years of industry experience in Android application development for consumer or business products.
  • Experience writing reliable and maintainable code for use by multiple engineers.
  • Ability to keep current with emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Support millions of users by ensuring excellence in shared core application sections.
  • Identify and propose solutions to app-wide challenges; test and ship those solutions.
  • Drive significant changes to improve app architecture and user experience.
  • Enable developers by enhancing app architecture, testing, and release processes.
  • Address user pain points affecting the entire app, focusing on performance and metrics monitoring.
  • Collaborate with talented peers on impactful projects for professional growth.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a collaborative team environment.
  • Engagement in high-impact projects.
  • Flexible collaboration style with occasional in-office requirements.
  • Focus on continuous learning and development with industry peers.
  • Commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Full Job Description
We are looking for inquisitive, well-rounded Android engineers to join our platform Engineering teams. Working closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers, you9ll 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. You9ll have the opportunity to find creative solutions to thought-provoking problems. Even better, because we covet the kind of courageous thinking that9s required in order for big bets and smart risks to pay off, you9ll be invited to create and drive new initiatives, seeing them from inception through to technical design, implementation, and release.

What you9ll do:
  • Support millions of users and enable colleagues by ensuring excellence in core pieces that are shared throughout the application
  • Identify app-wide challenges; propose, test, and ship solutions
  • Drive changes that improve the entire app such as modularization, implementing image/video loading, RTL text, dependency injection, and reusable UI components
  • Enable developers to work more effectively by improving app architecture, testing capabilities and release cycles
  • Solve hard-to-see user pain points that often affect the entire app such as performance, monitoring crash rates and solving user metric anomalies
  • Grow as a developer by working with world-class peers on varied and high impact projects
  • Leverage AI to seek faster execution (i.e. draft, prototype, outline) and explore alternative options (i.e. iterate, compare approaches)
  • Leverage AI to synthesize information (summarize, distill themes) and automate repeatable tasks (documentation, reporting, QA checks)

What we9re looking for:
  • Bachelor9s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
  • Deep understanding of Android development and best practices in Kotlin and/or Java, e.g. Activity Lifecycle, memory management, etc.
  • 4+ years of industry Android application development experience, building consumer or business facing products
  • 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
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow for relevant outputs.
  • Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work (e.g., testing, source-checking, data validation, peer review).
  • High integrity and ownership: you protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables.

In-Office Requirement Statement:
  • We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we9re not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
  • This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere within a commutable distance to the Toronto office (85 Richmond St. W).

Relocation Statement:
  • This position is not eligible for relocation assistance and candidates that apply should be based and legally authorized to work in Canada. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

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About Pinterest

Pinterest is a social media platform that allows users to discover and save ideas for recipes, home decor, fashion, and more. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Pinterest has over 400 million monthly active users and is available in over 30 languages. The company's mission is to help people discover and do what they love.
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Size
3,225 employees
Market Cap
$16 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$128.3 million
Founded
2009
5 Year Trend
+53.9%
Revenue
$1.6 billion
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