Staff Software Architect – AI-Driven Merchant Growth

Pinterest, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 365,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Pinterest, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for a team transforming how merchants onboard and activate through agent-enabled experiences.

You will partner with Product and engineering leaders to shape the roadmap, prototype innovative ideas and deliver reliable systems that use merchant signals and personalized recommendations to create measurable business impact. You will lead architecture for scalable MCP-first systems, design integrations, and build

Qualifications

• Experience leading architecture and delivery for complex software systems.
• Experience designing agent enabled systems and MCP based integrations.
• Experience partnering with Product to shape roadmaps and prototype ideas.
• Experience in experimentation, measurement and causal thinking.
• Experience improving AI first engineering teams through direction and coaching.
• Ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in daily workflow.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable, MCP first systems for merchant onboarding, activation and growth experiences.
• Partner with Product to shape a growth roadmap and convert concepts into production experiences.
• Design integrations that apply merchant signals and personalized recommendations across Pinterest surfaces.
• Build agent enabled experiences that improve merchant readiness and campaign creation with measurable impact.
• Use AI to accelerate prototyping, analysis and iteration while ensuring quality and user trust.
• Improve the team's AI harness across development, testing, quality validation and service operations.
• Raise the technical bar through clear technical direction, design reviews and coaching.

Skills

Architecture leadership

System design

AI integration

Roadmap collaboration

Experimentation & causal thinking

Mentoring & technical direction

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Pinterest, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for a team transforming how merchants onboard and activate through agent-enabled experiences.

You will partner with Product and engineering leaders to shape the roadmap, prototype innovative ideas and deliver reliable systems that use merchant signals and personalized recommendations to create measurable business impact. You will lead architecture for scalable MCP-first systems, design integrations, and build