Sr. Staff Software Engineer, iOS Search and Shopping Journeys
$208,592–$429,454 year
RemoteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Own and drive multi-platform product and front-end strategy for Pinterest Search across iOS, Android, and Web, ensuring a cohesive experience for Text, Visual, and Image Search. Lead end-to-end feature design and implementation, partnering with product, design, and ML teams to deliver measurable improvements in engagement. Use AI to accelerate iteration on interaction patterns and UI variations while maintaining rigorous engineering judgment for correctness and performance. Provide technical leadership for 35+ engineers by defining architectural direction and codifying best practices for code quality. Collaborate with infrastructure and back-end teams to design robust APIs and experimentation hooks, while identifying and applying technologies from other product surfaces. Mentor engineers and technical leaders to develop front-end and product-thinking skills. This role requires 10+ years of experience, deep iOS expertise, and in-person office collaboration once weekly.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience building and shipping large-scale, consumer-facing products
- deep expertise in iOS development
- strong full-stack engineering skills
- Demonstrated experience leading front-end and product strategy across multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Web)
- designing architectures that support consistency, performance, and fast iteration
- Strong track record of tech-leading complex, cross-team initiatives from problem definition through execution
- using A/B experimentation and data to guide decisions and demonstrate impact
- Experience collaborating with ML, infra, and back-end teams on API design, data flows, and experimentation frameworks
- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your workflow
- rigorous approach to validating AI-assisted work through testing, data validation, and peer review
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners
- align them around a cohesive Search product and front-end vision
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1 times per week
- needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the SF/PA offices
- US based applicants only
Desired Qualifications
- leading Search's product and front-end strategy across iOS and other platforms such as Android and Web
- spanning core product lines like Text Search, Visual Search, and Image Search
- Lead the design, implementation, and productionization of end-to-end features and journeys in Search
- partnering with product, design, and ML teams to deliver measurable improvements in engagement and quality
- Use AI (including LLMs and other generative techniques) to accelerate exploration and iteration
- rapidly prototyping new interaction patterns, drafts of UI/UX variations, and experiment plans
- applying strong engineering judgment and verification to ensure correctness, performance, and quality
- Provide technical leadership across 35+ engineers working on Search front-ends and related product surfaces
- define architectural direction, codify best practices, and raise the bar on code quality, performance, and reliability
- Collaborate closely with infrastructure, ML, and back-end teams to design robust APIs, data contracts, and experimentation hooks
- enable fast, safe iteration on Search experiences
- Partner with cross-functional teams across Pinterest to identify technologies being developed elsewhere
- apply them to Search - or extend Search innovations to other teams where they can have outsized impact
- Mentor and grow engineers and technical leaders in the organization
- helping them develop strong front-end, full-stack, and product-thinking skills
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