Senior Staff Backend Architect for AI-Powered Assistant

Visa Hunt; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 209,000 - 429,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Sr. Staff Backend Engineer to lead the backend platform for Pinterest Assistant. You will define architecture and technical direction for scalable, multimodal experiences, collaborating with product, design, ML and infra teams to enable advanced AI-powered features.

The role emphasizes leadership, architecture ownership, and partnerships with ML engineers to drive foundational investments, improve reliability, and raise engineering quality across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years backend software engineering experience powering consumer experiences.
• 3+ years as a technical lead driving architecture of large-scale distributed backends.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for Pinterest Assistant backend systems.
• Lead design and implementation of core platform including orchestration, memory, personalization, APIs and tooling.
• Shape engineering strategy and investments to improve velocity, reliability and scalability.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Frontend, ML and Infrastructure teams to deliver a personalized multimodal experience.

Skills

Backend architecture

Team leadership

Python/TypeScript/Node

Distributed systems

ML collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Job description

Pinterest is seeking a Sr. Staff Backend Engineer to lead the backend platform for Pinterest Assistant. You will define architecture and technical direction for scalable, multimodal experiences, collaborating with product, design, ML and infra teams to enable advanced AI-powered features.

The role emphasizes leadership, architecture ownership, and partnerships with ML engineers to drive foundational investments, improve reliability, and raise engineering quality across the organization.