Job description

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . 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. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about web architecture, developer experience, and building scalable foundations for product development. 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. What you’ll do: 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. What we’re looking for: 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. Relocation Statement : This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model. In-Office Requirement Statement : This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country. #LIKK6 #LI-HYBRID At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise. Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here . US based applicants only $177,185 — $364,795 USD Our Commitment to Inclusion: 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 a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support. By submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any false statement, omission, or misrepresentation may disqualify me from employment consideration or result in termination if discovered after hire.

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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.
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.
This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here . US based applicants only $177,185 — $364,795 USD Our Commitment to Inclusion:

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