Senior Backend Engineer, Integrations Tooling

This role is hybrid with 3 days a week in our NYC office.

Pinwheel is on a mission to change that. We believe banks and financial service providers represent the greatest opportunity to build 10x better experiences, especially in the AI age. We’re building the next generation of financial products alongside some of the biggest names in the market.

We’re hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to own platform‑level problem spaces end‑to‑end, raise the technical bar, and make the Integrations Engineering team measurably more productive. You’ll identify categories of recurring problems, design systems that eliminate them, and lead the execution alongside junior and mid‑level engineers.

Pinwheel is a hybrid environment, with a 3‑day in‑office requirement here in our NYC headquarters, near Union Square.

• Own platform initiatives end‑to‑end: scope, design, build, ship, and maintain
• Drive systems design for new integration infrastructure, including services, queues, data pipelines, async workflows
• Lead projects staffed with junior and mid‑level engineers; make them measurably more productive through code review, design feedback, and the systems you build
• Identify and eliminate classes of problems rather than patching individual one‑off bugs
• Set technical direction in ambiguous problem spaces
• Collaborate closely with IE and adjacent teams to ensure platform primitives meet real consumer needs

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience
• Computer Science degree or comparable experience
• Experience designing and operating services that handle concurrency, failure modes, and meaningful scale
• Experience with backend platform / infrastructure: services, queues, data pipelines, async processing
• Strong systems design: your designs get adopted by peers; you can defend tradeoffs and anticipate failure modes
• Demonstrated autonomous project leadership: examples of owning ambiguous, multi‑quarter projects from idea to business outcomes
• AI‑forward thinking: you have set yourself apart from others in willingness to drive AI projects forward

• Integrations experience: you've built against third‑party APIs, dealt with auth flows, rate limits, and the operational reality of depending on external systems
• Browser automation experience (Selenium, CDP, Playwright): useful context for our integration surface
• Browser fingerprinting / detection work
• Expertise in Python
• Experience working in Fintech or comparable regulatory environment
• Track record of reducing on‑call noise

• Great compensation & equity packages
• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Life & short‑term disability insurance
• Unlimited vacation
• Paid parental leave
• 401K for retirement planning
• Mentorship opportunities
• Free Citibike membership
• Pet friendly offices and Zoom spaces

At Pinwheel, total compensation is made up of salary + equity + benefits. We recruit motivated and high‑performing talent, and work to compensate people in line with the value they can bring to the organization in delivering outsized results. The expected cash salary range for this role is $160,000 - $200,000 base.

At Pinwheel, we are committed to building an environment that is diverse and inclusive. We believe that having people across different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives enables us not only to build the best financial products, but to help us realize the best versions of ourselves. Pinwheel is an equal opportunity employer, and we aim to be an open and supportive place to work.