Staff Software Engineer, Pinterest
Web Product Enablement
$177.2-364.8k
+ Equity
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Posted today
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Posted today
$177.2-364.8k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone who is passionate about web architecture, developer experience, and building scalable foundations for product development
- 8+ years of web software engineering experience building, designing and evolving client-side data architecture in large-scale web applications
- Deep understanding of tradeoffs in caching, consistency, latency, reliability, and developer ergonomics in modern web clients
- Expert-level coding skills in languages like javascript or typescript (optional python), with ability to write production-quality code
- Knowledge on Node.js, server-side rendering techniques and GraphQL frameworks like Relay
- Strong experience working across both GraphQL and REST, with the technical judgment to define clear patterns for how and when each should be used
- Proven ability to evaluate complex systems, define pragmatic architectural direction, and lead cross-team execution on foundational platform investments that improve developer productivity and scalability
- Experience establishing reusable patterns, technical standards, and documentation that improve consistency and maintainability across teams
- Strong technical leadership and mentorship skills, with a track record of raising the engineering bar through guidance, feedback, and influence
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align stakeholders and influence technical direction across organizational boundaries
- Passion for web architecture and interest in staying current with evolving patterns, tools, and best practices in client-side data systems
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest, you will help define and drive the technical direction of the web development layer that product engineers build with, so teams can ship features more quickly, reliably, and consistently
- While this role will have a strong focus on data fetching, it will also contribute more broadly across the systems, frameworks, and best practices that enable product engineers to build high-quality web experiences at scale including code health and our design system
- Define and drive technical direction for foundational web capabilities that product engineers use directly, with a primary focus on data fetching
- Assess the current ecosystem of frameworks, tooling, and patterns on the web client, and identify the highest-impact opportunities for improvement
- Lead platform investments that simplify development, reduce friction, and improve consistency across the product engineering experience
- Partner across product, platform, design, and infrastructure teams to align on scalable technical patterns and long-term architecture
- Shape the evolution of data fetching in our hybrid GraphQL/REST environment, while contributing more broadly to framework adoption, paved paths, and code health
- Establish best practices, reusable abstractions, and technical guidance that raise quality and improve maintainability across the web organization
- Mentor engineers and influence technical direction through architecture reviews, design discussions, and cross-team leadership
- Contribute to a high-scale web platform serving millions of users and enabling hundreds of engineers to build product experiences effectively
Our take
Inspiration and ideas can pop into your head at any time, and with the growth of social media and networking, sharing these interests and gaining exposure has never been easier. Pinterest exists to display these moments visually, as a kind of digital pinboard allowing users to save and share digital images which have inspired them.
Pinterest's emphasis on visual discovery has differentiated it from competitors and created a more positive and fulfilling experience for its users. Pinterest in many ways provides a respite from the ceaseless negativity that plagues social media such as Facebook and X, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 600M by late 2025.
With this type of success, Pinterest's future feels full of possibility. Recent industry chatter suggests that OpenAI may be eyeing the platform, which has sparked exciement for some and concern for others. While nothing is confirmed, the discussion highlights just how valuable Pinterest has become. Whether through potential partnerships or continues independent growth, Pinterest is very much going to keep on innovation and growing.
Kirsty
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Bill Ready
(CEO)Prior to joining Pinterest in 2022, Bill was the President of Commerce, Payments & Emerging Markets at Google.
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