[Remote] Staff Software Engineer, Web Product Enablement

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pinterest is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to define and drive the technical direction of the web development layer used by product engineers. The role focuses on data-fetching architecture and broader platform foundations that help teams build and ship reliable, consistent web experiences at scale.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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
• 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
• Optional python

Benefits

• The position is also eligible for equity.
• 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.

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