Staff Software Engineer: AI-Driven Growth & Architecture Lead

Pinterest, Inc.

United States

Remote

USD 208,000 - 365,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Pinterest 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 with merchant signals and personalized recommendations to create measurable business impact.

The role emphasizes AI-enabled prototyping, strong ownership, and coaching to raise the engineering

Qualifications

Experience leading architecture and delivery for complex software systems spanning product surfaces, backend services, data signals and external integrations.
Experience designing agent enabled systems and MCP based integrations, with strong judgment around reliability, security, data quality and user trust.
Experience partnering with Product to shape roadmaps, prototype new ideas and make technical tradeoffs that support growth goals.
Experience in experimentation, measurement and causal thinking, with the ability to connect product and technical decisions to business impact.

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, identify high value opportunities and convert the strongest concepts into production experiences.
Design integrations that apply high quality merchant signals and personalized recommendations across Pinterest surfaces and approved external agent ecosystems.
Build agent enabled experiences that improve merchant readiness and campaign creation, with clear measurement of their contribution to business impact.
Use AI to accelerate prototyping, analysis and iteration while applying judgment and verification to ensure quality, reliability 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 that helps engineers make thoughtful decisions and deliver with strong ownership.