
Staff Software Engineer- Growth Performance Marketing
UKRemotePosted 10 days ago$177,185 – $364,795
Full TimeSeniorRemoteUK
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Job Description
About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on
Key Highlights
- Lead the technical roadmap for the performance marketing platform, defining the highest-impact investments across attribution, bidding, budget optimization, and campaign management
- Drive hands-on engineering across ad platform integrations, event pipelines, and production systems that deploy and measure marketing spend
- Design and evolve the measurement stack — attribution models, conversion signal collection, incrementality methodology, and privacy-resilient approaches as platform signals degrade
- Develop systems that automate and optimize bidding strategies and campaign experimentation at scale
- Drive cross-team technical initiatives with ads platform, data warehouse, and mobile teams — authoring design documents and building alignment across engineering orgs
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience building and shipping backend systems, with hands-on experience supporting performance marketing
- Strong understanding of paid media platforms — Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, Snap, or similar — and the operational realities of integrating with their APIs at scale
- Deep understanding of attribution methodologies (last click, multi-touch, SKAN, probabilistic vs. deterministic), incrementality testing, and conversion optimization, with hands-on experience integrating mobile measurement partners (AppsFlyer, Adjust, Singular, or similar) across mobile clients and server-side APIs
- Experience with near real-time systems for bidding, budget optimization, and conversion event delivery — you understand the mechanics well enough to evolve existing systems and propose improvements
- Strong proficiency building and operating data pipelines and services using Python or Java/Scala, plus SQL; experience with modern big data ecosystems is a plus
- Strong systems design skills across distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and service-oriented backends
- Familiarity with ML infrastructure concepts and ability to build systems that support ML workloads
- Demonstrated ability to use AI to accelerate your workflow while maintaining high standards for verification, data integrity, and ownership of final outputs
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience
Skills & Technologies
PythonJavaScalaSQL
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Job Details
Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Salary Range
$177,185 – $364,795
Location
UK
Work Mode
Remote
Posted
10 days ago
Country
UK