Staff Backend Engineer - Growth & Performance Marketing

Pinterest; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 177,185 - 364,795; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking an experienced engineer to lead technical initiatives within their performance marketing team. Your role involves overseeing the technical roadmap to optimize bidding strategies and enhance ad platform integrations. You will collaborate closely with various teams to innovate solutions and mentor engineers.

You should have over 7 years of backend systems experience and a strong grasp of performance marketing principles. This position offers flexibility with occasional in-office requirements in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in building and shipping backend systems.
• Strong understanding of paid media platforms and API integrations.
• Deep understanding of attribution methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical roadmap for the performance marketing platform.
• Drive hands-on engineering across ad platform integrations.
• Design and evolve the measurement stack and optimize bidding strategies.

Skills

Backend systems development

Performance marketing

Paid media platforms

Data pipelines

Systems design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Python

Java/Scala

SQL

Job description

Pinterest is seeking an experienced engineer to lead technical initiatives within their performance marketing team. Your role involves overseeing the technical roadmap to optimize bidding strategies and enhance ad platform integrations. You will collaborate closely with various teams to innovate solutions and mentor engineers.

You should have over 7 years of backend systems experience and a strong grasp of performance marketing principles. This position offers flexibility with occasional in-office requirements in San Francisco.